Super Senior moment

[Jocko]

Today, while driving in Edinburgh, I made the faux pas to beat all faux pas. In my defence I do not know Edinburgh well, except the roads I regularly drive. I was joining Leith Walk at the never-ending road works at the new St James Quarter. My sat nav was telling me to turn left then sharp right and as I turned left and was looking for the sharp right I saw the gap in the roadworks, turned sharp right, and immediately knew I had made a mistake. At first, I thought I had turned into the roadworks but then realised it was a pedestrian access point. It was only twenty yards and there were no pedestrians so instead of trying to reverse back out into the heavy traffic (particularly the lorry blowing its horn) I crawled the few yards to the end. There I met a van whose driver was happy to point out I was in a pedestrian area! The van behind him let me back into the traffic and I went on my way, feeling somewhat stupid.
A real Senior moment.

[Jayt43]

You earnt it But don't worry about it! Happens to the best of us when faced with the unfamiliarity of a city.

[culzean]

Cities are now very strange places, with bus lanes, box junctions and pedestrian areas.... There is an overload of info to process, even with the help of a satnav....  We went to Birmingham National Indoor Arena a couple of years ago ( for a night show ) and the area around it was being redeveloped ( something to do with HS2 I think ) - most of the streets were blocked off, getting in was bad enough,  getting out was a nightmare, with nose to tail traffic, I have never been so happy to see the Aston Expressway and the signs for M6 north.

[ColinB]

My wife tells a story about a friend of hers who drove into what she thought was the entrance to the car park of the building she was visiting. They had to get a crane to retrieve the car from the bottom of the flight of steps she'd just driven down.

[Kremmen]

Is that screenshot from a Viofo dashcam ?

[peteo48]

A few years ago now we were driving to Gatwick to catch a flight to Italy. I had an early sat nav. We were staying in a hotel in Crawley that did a park and stay system. The sat nav told me to turn right and I ended up in Debenham's car park. I had to pay to get out!

[culzean]

Is that screenshot from a Viofo dashcam ?

Last I heard Jocko had a nextbase 512

[Kremmen]

I'm playing Sherlock:

https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/reviewing-footage-on-pc.45797/page-7

Post #133

[MartinJG]

I think your are being hard on yourself. I have noticed an ever increasing amount of 'screen/app watching' to the extent that some folk seem unable to function without their routine fix. Who needs robots and androids when you can breed them at no extra cost.

[John Ratsey]

If going to somewhere unfamiliar I often use Google Streetview to familiarise myself beforehand and, for example, see what the entrance to a car park look like. However, that doesn't work if there have been recent changes or there are temporary roadworks.

[Kremmen]

"Me to"  +1, etc   

[Neil Ives]

My daughter lived near Reading for a while. The town centre road layout is very confusing. Twice I got done for driving onto a bus lane. I now call it Dreading and plan to never go there again.

[Kremmen]

Yes, Reading is tricky. I drive to Lower Earley at weekends but take the bus into the centre.

[Jocko]

I replaced the Nextbase 512G with a VIOFO A119 V3 and Sherlock is correct. Because I do very little miles now I have the Nextbase on the rear screen. It is not wired in but connected to my Poweradd in the side pocket in the boot. I plug it in before I leave home and just leave it running while I am out. It might seem like a faff but as I now have the car connected up to a smart charger all the time I have that to disconnect too so it is just part of the "pre-flight" checklist.
I have a red velcro band around the top of the steering wheel to remind me not to drive off connected to the garage!

[Kremmen]

I hope your Viofo performs as well as mine.

It's certainly been far better than my 3 Nextbase units.