I have a built-in GPS in my car, which is extraordinarily difficult to work, and I sometimes wonder why car manufacturers cannot allow you an option of one of the recognised brand names, instead of putting in their own.

I have also been a big supporter of Garmin over the years, until a friend of mine told me I should really give the TomTom a try, because of its traffic ability and that it is generally more accurate than other GPS’s. The TomTom’s advantage is certainly, as I alluded to in a previous blog, because some of the information is available on their website, its use of traffic information. It selects the fastest route for you based not only on the distances, but more specifically on the traffic that you will come across, and it continually updates that information live indicating for example that you have 8 minutes of traffic delays ahead and that 5 minutes of it will be at one location and 3 minutes at another location. In the week that I have been using it, it has certainly taught me some new routes and saved me, I would guess, on average about 10 minutes a journey which makes investment in it as well as the ugly wires dangling over the dashboard to the cigarette charger, worthwhile.