Ique owners are lucky...

[Jema]

Hi,
try this and see how lucky we are to have our Ique!
Best regards from Luxembourg : Jerry

>> 1. go to http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx
>>
>> 2. start address Norway / city: haugesund
>>
>> 3. destination address Norway / city: trondheim
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>> 4. press get directions
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>> 5. smile...

[JMckie]

Thanks for the laugh! That was great!

[JMckie]

This amused me so much I had to capture it for posterity.

Spoiler alert: Don't click on the link until you follow Jema's instructions first.

[Chan Eil Fhios]

That is hilarious...even more funny...click the reverse directions link at the top right:-) Mind-boggling isn't it?

[flipflop]

Excellent...more quality work from MS. Thanks for the laugh!

[JMckie]

And they are both using Navteq data.

[NewQ]

Now that's funny.
Thanks,

[lycestra]

hilarious!

in the corner of hte screenshot above, it says the copyright is 2003. Is this the european routing bugs from prior? Round-and-round-a-bout bug?

Reminds me. There was an insurance company commerical where a guy's car for some reason was in a lake. They don't explain how that happened, other than the driver saying something to the tone "GPS was way off" or something. Maybe the commercial was shot in Norway?

/me just had evil ideas of betty voice supplements for Birdwatch. "Uh oh! Cornfield!" or "Slow down, you maniac!! Let me out here!"

[GPSter]

Very funny:D

Maybe they're using a new routing preferences option:
a. Shortest
b. Fastest
c. Dumbest

[Statsman]

Originally posted by GPSter
Very funny:D

Maybe they're using a new routing preferences option:
a. Shortest
b. Fastest
c. Dumbest

Maybe even:

d. circuitous

[omnibus]

What's the problem?

That's the scenic route :D

[Statsman]

Originally posted by omnibus
What's the problem?

That's the scenic route :D

I would hate to see the Business Route!;)

[Mique]

Be careful with the sarcasm - you might just have given a hint to the Norwegians to shorten their trips :D Outch!!

yes - I'm Swedish

[TegBop]

Originally posted by lycestra

There was an insurance company commerical where a guy's car for some reason was in a lake. They don't explain how that happened, other than the driver saying something to the tone "GPS was way off" or something.


I think the guy said, "The map was a disappointment." The commercial runs on just about every (American) football game now.

Maybe this is a new version of the old classification of Microsoft software releases: The first is market research, the second is what everyone else would call a beta release, and the third might not actually explode in your face.

For mapping, the first goes in the opposite direction around the earth, the second takes only major roads even if that involves traversing much of the continent and an ocean crossing or two, and the third is only mildly ridiculous.

[nparker13]

talk about directions sending people into the water!!

-nate

[apersson850]

The boat ride between Haugesund and Great Britain is very nice. Select "shortest", and the boat ride will be even better.

[snoopy-doopy]

Super daat ass net schlecht :D
Ann endlech emol een Letzeburger an desem Forum :cool:

[bigtuffguy]

if betty ever does that to me, shes the one who will sleep with teh fishes

[lycestra]

Originally posted by bigtuffguy
if betty ever does that to me, shes the one who will sleep with teh fishes
Tell me where you are now, you bastard!!
-- Krusty

had to say it.

[Wiggers]

Saw this article in the London Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1444207,00.html

Mark

[Wiggers]

And this from The Register:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/26/ms_flying_car_sightings/

[Lloyd Swartz]

Are there some new tunnels I dont know about :confused: :D

[rkevwill]

This reminds me of the efficient way the French route phone calls from St. Martin to the US. The calls go from St. Martin, to France, then back to the US. On the dutch side, Sint Maarten, the calls go from Sint Maarten, directly to the US.

At least that was the way it was a few years ago. Perhaps the French efficiency has improved since then.

[Hans Nikolai Fø]

Hehe. I am from Norway, and this trip has been presented in Aftenposten, one of the biggest newspapers in Norway:

Aftenposten article (http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article955233.ece?)

What's really sad, is that the route planner STILL want us to explore the Nordic Sea, after all the fuzz in Norway. Why haven't anyone made any changes? Oh, well. I'm glad I'm using an iQue.

[si4xp]

Originally posted by JMckie
And they are both using Navteq data.
I think their routing engine is messed up despite the data being right.

[si4xp]

Originally posted by GPSter
Very funny:D

Maybe they're using a new routing preferences option:
a. Shortest
b. Fastest
c. Dumbest
I vote for Dumbest:D, especially with MSN.

[apersson850]

Nah, I think that's what the marketing people call "Scenic route".

[si4xp]

We all have heard of "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, USA", MS' Corp. HQ. The above is "Microsoft's Way" in Norway.