Mistakes in Sat nav is caused by its technology

warning sign Mistakes in Sat nav is caused by its technologyDriving experience has been revolutionised with the introduction of  Sat navs, which help to find unfamiliar places easily. But in some cases, these do not act properly.

Two holiday makers from Sweden were planning to reach the island of Capri but to their bad luck reached the other end of the country at about 400 miles away in an industrial town. They had mistakenly typed ‘Carpi’ instead of ‘Capri’.
Four tourists from Britain were stuck for four days in the wilderness of the Australian outback when their Satellite navigation send them to a muddy dirt track.
Some school children who had gone for a school trip to the palace of King Henry VIII in Surrey where taken to Islington, north London by his Sat nav. Unfortunately the children could not see palace and had to come back home.
Pilgrims who were on their way to Catholic shrine in Lourdes were taken to a village that did not have a shrine nor a hotel or a shop.
Some tourists from Gloucestershire were on a Christmas trip to Lille when they ended up in a village in Belgia that had the same name as their destination. They were also misled by their Sat nav.

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