Re: speaking of gps

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910282334410.243-100000@clone.spore.org> c a l i b a n writes:

> i have seen the interface for the system in an a8 in
> the showroom.  i imagine it woul dbe a bit clunky to
> use, there seemed to be only about 5 buttons on it.

Yup.  You press n times to get the first letter of the town you want,
then n times for the second letter, then ...

> ]Here's the tricky bit.  It has a _strong_ preference, in the UK, for
> ]motorways.  Now - the reason most of us buy Audi's performance quattros
> ]is to be able to make rapid progress on _all_ types of road.  John had
> ]to go to Manchester recently, and the car produced a motorway-only route.
>
> motorways = freeways, yes?  "dual carriageways" as i seem
> to remember seeing as i traveled from london to surrey and
> on to dorset back in 1986...

Motorways are motorways - roughly equivalent to freeways or Autobahns.

Dual carriageways are not motorways - the A50 in my example is a dual
carriageway.  There are no direct equivalents in Germany - once they
lay a road out to that standard they make it an Autobahn.  Not sure
what the US equivalent is - expressways?  Whatever - as shipped, it
knows about them but doesn't like using them.

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 Phil Payne
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