Gov't to step in to try to solve SatNav errors

[X5Sport]

Just picked this up....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/06/satnav_summit/

They do have a point. It is taking far too long to get updates into map databases, and it must be possible to tag roads with a type code and then select the users vehicle type (Car, Truck, Artic, Bike etc) so that the system removes unsuitable roads from any routeing offered. They may require additional storage capacity, but solid state memory is cheap enough these days, and even the X6 comes with 80GB of hard drive of which a very large proportion is set aside for the maps

It would probably help if the cost of the data also came down to something a little more reasonable, or if for owners who only need the UK, then only the UK was available. I am very unlikely to drive on the Continent, but the nav daabase covers the whole area.

I don't suppose there is any way of actually stopping people from remembering that the Nav System is a tool and not a bible to follow blindly even when common sense says that the road about to be taken is less than suitable.