This brought back some bad memories. The last time I was in England, I was taking a cab from our factory (in Frimley Green) to my hotel (in Woking). Its about 15km through the countryside on winding roads, so the drive takes about 20 minutes. I’m sitting in the back with a consultant, discussing a project. Well, an hour goes by before we notice, at which time we look out and notice that nothing looks familiar. The driver says he’s lost and pulls over to ask directions. Apparently no one in the pub knows where Woking is. I notice he has an in-dash GPS. Looking at it, we are about 40km from Woking. Then he tells us that he was trying to follow the GPS to Woking, but the TWO navigation systems keep giving him different directions. It turns out that the company programmed the correct address into the in dash, but he had his OWN GPS in his cell phone(which turned out to be set for the Holiday Inn in Central London!) So, why didn’t we end up in London? The guy was turning whenever EITHER GPS told him to turn, essentially going in a 20 km circle, rather than just following one of them. 2.5 hours after starting we got out of the cab 3 blocks from the hotel. (I wasn’t going to trust him to drive the 10 blocks on one way streets it takes to travel those 3 blocks!).
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