Last week I had to attend a meeting in a town which happened to have two roads with the same name. I was given a postcode by my company and proceeded to drive to the meeting using Co-Pilot on my iPhone. I ended up in a residential area and promptly started to curse Co-Pilot for letting me down. This was the first time it had happened and so I was not duly concerned.
As a last resort I tried Vodafone Sat Nav on my BlackBerry Curve 8900 and was promptly taken to the correct building. I inputted the same postcode information and all worked OK this time, but that is far from the end of the story. When I arrived, it turned out that many others had also been taken to the same place I had originally because they had also used the same postcode. We all managed to get lost at one stage and eventually were told that we had been given the wrong postcode.
The irony is that all of the sat navs which did the right thing ended up getting us lost and seemingly Vodafone Sat Nav mixed up its postcodes and took me to the place I wanted to go? So, sometimes it is worth a double check before you leave to ensure that everything goes smoothly. A sat nav is only as good as the person, or people, providing the information for it to navigate with, and in this case we all got it wrong.
