Testing, testing

It’s time, comrades, for the uprising.

- MATT SAUNDERS

Time for the overlooked and marginalised to rebalance the scales. We've waited too long already. We must act - and we must do it on behalf of good, right-thinking, sensible drivers everywhere.

The scourge of the godawful 'direction of travel' satellite navigation display mode has its boot on our throats; it can no longer be borne. It’s time to reclaim satellite navigation as a useful tool for those who can read a map. Those who do understand that Naughty Elephants Squirt Water, or they should Never Eat Shredded Wheat. Who do know roughly which way their bonnet is pointing and would simply like a system that makes it possible to keep it moving, and pointing that way, without getting snarled up in tailbacks, roadworks or provincial town centres.

For years, we ignored the threat. It grew quietly on the periphery of things as a novelty, an amusement. It was an extra mode on the 5in screen of your 'Dame Edna' BMW 5 Series or Mk1 Range Rover Sport, that you could show off to passengers, before reverting to the one that, well, you know, made sense.