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Article: Atlas beats sat-nav in navigation stakes.(News)
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- Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2007
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BYLINE: RAY MASSEY
LONDON: For getting from A to B, apparently there's nothing as reliable as a road atlas.
Recent research by Britain's Computing Which? magazine showed that an [pounds sterling]8 book (R113) and a little map-reading skill will get motorists to their destination faster than an expensive satellite navigation device.
The "good old-fashioned" AA atlas not only beat a sophisticated [pounds sterling]220 (R3 163) sat-nav system which got the driver lost down "obscure" country detours, it knocked the socks off a computer-based route-finder costing [pounds sterling]45 (R641).
The findings follow a series of incidents in which ...