Jeez I'm turning into a tech toy freak

[Lou Girardin]

I've just bought a Garmin Quest GPS unit, a waterproof portable unit so I can use it on the bike and car.
Don't ask me all techy type questions, because I've only had one play with it, but it's uncanny how it tells you to turn just in time to make it.
It got a little confused going across the city, but I'm told tall buildings and frequent turns can catch it out.
Now I need to have a play on the open road.
Do they tell you you've just ridden into a ditch and to pay attention to the road - dickhead?

[DemonWolf]

haha Good stuff Lou Girardin.. what did that set you back?

Make up some or your favourite routes.. does it do average speed on a trip and stuff like that?

[Lou Girardin]

It does all sorts, Moving average, total average, time moving. time stopped, total time, speed and max speed.
I can defend speeding tickets now.
Price was a bit of a deal with the importer, but retail is around $1200 with the bike mount kit.

[sAsLEX]

I'm told tall buildings and frequent turns can catch it out.


GPS things generally suck in the Urban environment suck as Dorkland due to whats called Multipath where the signal from the Sat gets bounced off all the buildings etc, also in the city you cant see many if any satallites down in the gorges of Queen st etc

[The_Dover]

Better than being a sex toy freak I guess Lou.

[Hitcher]

GPS road navigation in New Zealand is all a bit hit and miss really. Largely due to the fact that there has never been a proper ordnance survey done of these fair isles.

Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl.

[Lou Girardin]

Better than being a sex toy freak I guess Lou.

Sssshhhhh!

[James Deuce]

Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl.

Someone's been playing far too much Civ IV

[Ixion]

Frederick the Great actually . Napolean I said something similar. But then , he would.

[Hitcher]

Someone's been playing far too much Civ IV
Beep, beep, beep

[James Deuce]

Frederick the Great actually . Napolean I said something similar. But then , he would.

Yes indeed, however it is a quote read by Leonard Nimoy when you discover the "invention" of Artillery, when playing Sid Meier's Civilisation IV on a PC.

The next quote that Hitcher mentioned is the quote read by Leonard Nimoy when you "discover" satellites.

[Lou Girardin]

I gave it a test run on Sat night, we had to meet friends at Delicious in Gay Lynn.
So I find Delicious in the menu, hit 'find route', and 20 mins later we're outside the door.
Bloody magic.

[Finn]

I've got a built it GPS in the car but prefer to use my own "built-in" navigation system for NZ. That is, if you hit water, you've gone too far.

[The_Dover]

And if you end up in Gay Lynn, you're lost or cruising.

[Ixion]

I've got a built it GPS in the car but prefer to use my own "built-in" navigation system for NZ. That is, if you hit water, you've gone too far.

Using that system, an infallible way to never become lost is just to keep turning right.

[The Pastor]

I dont like computers + cars / bikes. I like pistons and petrol. Although If its a shit box car a decent stero is nice. I Likes the cars with the "distance to empty" and "Km per L" on the dash. But gps? Maybe if I was a tourist overseas... but only then if the hire car had it.. Whats wrong with a map?

[Brian d marge]

We drive a Honda Ellesion ( sp) well just about everything goes beep /whistle ..burp

The dashboard tells you everything from air temp to average km/l and inlet Hg
Has a reversing camera ( which is very usefull)
The console has an Awesome stereo that takes a Pc card, so i connect any card /HD that connects through a pc card ,,,

DVD /CD Tv player But the Gps system is cool you type in the telephone number and a voice guides you ... 300 meter migi hogo desu !

( turn right in 300 meters )

it even tells you when you are drifting in you lane when driving on the motorway !

So I switch the FR$%^&*ing thing off! .....its good when you dont know the address , tokyo is a nightmre to navigate in

but other than that and checking for traffic flow the brain is better !!!


Stephen

[Hitcher]

We drive a Honda Ellesion
Snort. The day I fear most, discoving I'm following a Mazda Clitoris, is nearly imminent.

[Brian d marge]

I was driving behind a niisan DUNK the other day !

Whoever is teaching em Engkish at the factory is definitly not kept in the loop !!!

Stephen

[scumdog]

It does all sorts, Moving average, total average, time moving. time stopped, total time, speed and max speed.
I can defend speeding tickets now.
Price was a bit of a deal with the importer, but retail is around $1200 with the bike mount kit.

Got to Blenhiem and back OK in the F100 'lorry', never needed a GPS OR a radar detector, saved over $2000 on those two items, shame the petrol bill was about $450 though!!!:gob:

Good on ya Lou, technology like that is way too much effort to get my head around for day-to-day use but would be handy to have.

[Lou Girardin]

I entered 'scumdog' and it showed me exactly where you live. That's technology for you, there was even a rum bottle icon showing.

And I can use it to defend speeding tickets too!

It's all good so far.