Article: Are you a sat-nav numpty? ; There have been many tales of satellite numpties, who blind-ly follow directions down railway tracks, up gated roads, into rivers and even get themselves wedged in narrow alleys.

There have been many tales of satellite numpties, who blind-ly follow directions down railway tracks, up gated roads, into rivers and even get themselves wedged in narrow alleys.

More seriously, rural communities like Wedmore in Somerset have found their homes and businesses plagued by lorries seeking a direct route to Weston- super-Mare or Burnham, because the routing algorithms which drive the systems are not yet sophisticated enough to recognise that different vehicles require different routes.

So are these systems a blessing, or a menace?

Critics of sat-nav argue that the simple presence of the gadget in the car can be too much of a distraction for the motorist.

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