Have you set your home address on your SatNav?

MarkyX6 · Post by **MarkyX6** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:23 pm

When I picked my car up, I automatically went to set mine up, and the Salesman stopped me.

He pointed out that if someone got my car, all they had to do was set the destination as home, and they would know where I lived!

I suppose they would get to the road, but they wouldn't know the number!

Anyone else set it up?

Regards

Mark

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:33 pm

Nope. Mine is also vacant, and coded in one of the nav addresses (I don't use the obvious choice of 'Home' either) so not easy to discover.....for exactly the reason the salesman suggested.

I use the Google Maps system to send addresses to the car through the web via the Connected Drive system rather than add them into a database in the car itself.

It amazes me how many people forget to clear out the nav address books when selling on. I'm pretty sure most BMW Dealers don't clear them either, and non-Franchises probably don't know how to.

Richard

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:44 pm

All my navigation stuff has home set as the nearest town. Hopefully I wouldnt get lost on the way home from there :-[

Turks · Post by **Turks** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 4:54 am

When I started reading this I thought how daft... surely you know your way home once you have arrived in your home town if not miles before that!

Sat Nav is a good thing but I only use it when I am lost. I like to plan my journey or at least have a clue where I am going by checking a map first - I don't like relying on instructions from these things and I think too many people do. They have lost their ability to navigate or read road signs... blame the Sat Nav when they turn down a one-way street or when they were doing the wrong speed because the Sat Nav said so.

Turks.

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:37 am

I well remember being on a Conference Call several years ago where the IT Chief Technical Architect for the program was in his M3 and the sat nav was running in the background, told him to take the next left and as soon as he'd taken it announced in that steady female voice, "Warning! Road Closed.". He wasn't best pleased, though the 30-odd others on the call though it was hilarious....

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It is too easy to rely on these things, and I think the only reason that makes sense for a home address to be stored is if I was using voice control. Otherwise, and as you rightly say, you're going to know where you're going. It is too easy to rely on the things being right, when often they aren't. I got caught out in Norwich a couple of weekends back whilst trying to get out of the City (not having been there before) and the Nav told me to "Turn Left" which I duly did only to find the road had been blocked off partway down - presumably to stop people doing exactly what I was trying to do. There were no warning signs at the end of the road though! Push bikes and motorbikes could get through, just nothing bigger.

For me, their best use is going from home to somewhere new so that at least I can see what TMC thinks are problems ahead so I can adjust. Until the mapping data is more accurate, cheaper to update, has better filters for the journey and vehicle type and has vastly improved algorithms then it's only ever going to be a back-up tool.

Richard

davyk31 · Post by **davyk31** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:06 am

Set "Home" as your nearest Police station, that way whoever steals your car drives themselves right to the Law

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pvr · Post by **pvr** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:48 pm

Advantage of living a little sticks like I suppose, no numbers and just a road. It normally tells me I have arrived when I am driving between fields.

MarkyX6 · Post by **MarkyX6** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:32 pm

I like the Police Station idea.

Mark

Woofer · Post by **Woofer** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:32 pm

I've got my home address set to my local pub... works for me

Cheers!

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:34 pm

[quote="MarkyX6"]
I like the Police Station idea.

Mark
[/quote]
That of course assumes that there's a real policeman actually there...round here they're not manned 24/7.

Great idea though....

mogsyman · Post by **mogsyman** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:59 pm

Nope - not sure I'd be happy helping someone direct themselves to my valuables.

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Raj · Post by **Raj** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:22 pm

I've never set home to anything tbh as I'm pretty sure I can always find my way home from pretty much anywhere.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:46 am

Is that because of the smell?

:pokey:

Raj · Post by **Raj** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:05 am

[quote="pvr"]
Is that because of the smell?

:pokey:
[/quote]

Err, I thought you lived surrounded by cow poo....

Unless of course your trying to say that my house must smell because I'm Indian...hmmm.... :type:

:pokey:

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:13 am

Cow poo? Nah, far more upmarket than that. Horse dung for me together with the squelchy fox mess

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