GPS & Navigation

Somewhere in Norfolk right now, a driver is trusting a phone propped against the dashboard to get a 44-tonne artic through a market town built for horses and carts. It usually ends fine. Sometimes it ends with a bridge missing a chunk of brickwork and a very awkward phone call to the transport office. A … Read more

Glancing down at the speedometer sounds harmless enough, but that quarter-second flick of the eyes adds up over a motorway journey, and it’s one of the small habits a HUD speed display for car use is designed to break. A HUD speed display for car dashboards is a small projector or screen, usually mounted on … Read more

Picture this: you’re halfway down the M6, the satnav’s just re-routed you round a closed junction, and the thing slides clean off the windscreen and lands somewhere near the pedals. Not ideal. Not even close to ideal. A decent sat nav mount for dashboard fitting solves that exact problem, and it’s one of those cheap, … Read more

Here’s a confession every driver eventually makes: your phone’s map app is brilliant right up until the signal drops on the M6, the battery dies at 40%, or a call from your mum interrupts your directions three roundabouts from home. A dedicated sat nav under £150 solves all three problems in one go, and it … Read more

A sat nav for roads is a dedicated GPS navigation device that plans routes, gives turn-by-turn directions and displays live hazards like speed cameras and roadworks without relying on your phone’s signal or data. That’s the textbook answer, anyway. The honest one is a bit more personal: it’s the little box on your dashboard that … Read more