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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Directions by Jeremy Clarkson
Driving can be stressful, so what you don’t need is a sat nav which gives you instructions in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice.
If you choose to use this new voice, being released by TomTom in October, your GPS navigation system will order you – amongst other panic inducing phrases – to “Turn right. Turn RIGHT. You missed it! For the love of . . . !”
“It’s not a gentle sat nav voice, put it like that,” stated Mr Clarkson.
Road users who are easily panicked by the tone of voice used by the famous Top Gear presenter may wish to switch to the new Stig sat nav voice.
Jeremy Clarkson explains, “You can put it in Stig mode, apparently, which is when nothing happens. It doesn’t speak to you at all.
“So you can either have Stig or me and personally I would use the Stig most.”
There are reports that TomTom has been in contact with Jeremy’s co-presenters, in a bid to add their voices to its sat nav instruction repertoire, however Mr Clarkson doesn’t seem to think they’d work very well.
“Hammond, well that wouldn’t work because he hasn’t got the patience.
“James May genuinely doesn’t have a sense of direction.”
We love getting new voices on our sat navs and we’ll try any voice at least once. Let’s see how long we last when getting ordered about by infamous Clarkson.
If you choose to use this new voice, being released by TomTom in October, your GPS navigation system will order you – amongst other panic inducing phrases – to “Turn right. Turn RIGHT. You missed it! For the love of . . . !” “It’s not a gentle sat nav voice, put it like that,” stated Mr Clarkson.
Road users who are easily panicked by the tone of voice used by the famous Top Gear presenter may wish to switch to the new Stig sat nav voice.
Jeremy Clarkson explains, “You can put it in Stig mode, apparently, which is when nothing happens. It doesn’t speak to you at all.
“So you can either have Stig or me and personally I would use the Stig most.”
There are reports that TomTom has been in contact with Jeremy’s co-presenters, in a bid to add their voices to its sat nav instruction repertoire, however Mr Clarkson doesn’t seem to think they’d work very well.
“Hammond, well that wouldn’t work because he hasn’t got the patience.
“James May genuinely doesn’t have a sense of direction.”
We love getting new voices on our sat navs and we’ll try any voice at least once. Let’s see how long we last when getting ordered about by infamous Clarkson.
Image © HamsterRun via photobucket
Labels: driving, GPS, Jeremy Clarkson, sat nav, Stig, TomTom
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Feeling a little congested
We all like winning things, even though it must be stressed that it’s the taking part that counts, but recently Britain has “won” a title which does not make us want to celebrate.
Britain has the biggest traffic congestion problem in Europe.
Sat-nav company TomTom compiled the figures, which are automatically updated onto its network from its satellite navigation product.
Areas of congestion are noted as being highways on which journeys that, for example, should only take one hour end up taking 20 minutes more.
On the list of 50 of the most gridlocked cities across the continent, the UK has 16 cities included. Furthermore, eight of those are proudly sat in the top 20.
TomTom reassures long-suffering motorists that congestion is improving little by little in the UK, but, as a spokesperson for the company stated, “many [cities] have a long way to go.”
We await smooth-running traffic in our capitals with bated breath, but although improvements are being made we may be quite red in the face by the end.
Britain has the biggest traffic congestion problem in Europe.Sat-nav company TomTom compiled the figures, which are automatically updated onto its network from its satellite navigation product.
Areas of congestion are noted as being highways on which journeys that, for example, should only take one hour end up taking 20 minutes more.
On the list of 50 of the most gridlocked cities across the continent, the UK has 16 cities included. Furthermore, eight of those are proudly sat in the top 20.
TomTom reassures long-suffering motorists that congestion is improving little by little in the UK, but, as a spokesperson for the company stated, “many [cities] have a long way to go.”
We await smooth-running traffic in our capitals with bated breath, but although improvements are being made we may be quite red in the face by the end.
Image by barry.pousman via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: gridlock, motorists, sat-nav, satellite navigation, TomTom, traffic congestion