Perhaps Installing A Car Accessory Could Save A Life?

A lot of people don't think car accessories are very important when it comes to saving a life but you would be wrong in thinking as many car accessories out there have proven to have saved lives in the past so maybe you should rethink things. Are there any main accessories out there that really do go towards saving lives??

Sat Nav

The Sat Nav is one of the things that not a lot of people will think do anything towards saving lives but actually do a lot to get things right. Think about it, if you are on vacation and all of a sudden someone starts feeling rough you could ring 999 but what happens if it is something like your wife giving birth? well all you need to do is search for the address, insert it into your Sat Nav and then you can get there as quick as legally possible.

Parking Sensors

Again parking sensors don't sound like something that you can save lives but if just one time you are reversing and not really looking where you are going you could hit someone that is walking behind you and cause them some serious harm. With parking sensors installed the chances of you actually doing this have fallen dramatically as they will bleep whenever you are near to hitting something or someone.

Pressure washers

You would think there is no way of this saving a life when in actual fact a clean car means you can see out of it which helps. So I guess you could even say that the smallest of car accessories can really do help to save lives.

In the end make sure you realise that car accessories are a lot more important than you first might think, ignoring them as a life saving option is not a good idea at all!

Dodging Motoring Convictions with a Sat Nav

Early one wintry Christmas morning I ripped at the Christmas wrapping, desperate to discover what my mother had bought me that year. She had a knack for selecting the perfect gift, even if I'd no idea what I wanted that particular year, although admittedly this was an unusual occurrence. However, this Christmas was one such year so I was clueless as to what lay hidden beneath the brightly-coloured paper.

My heart sank as I realised it was the most pointless of gadgets, a sat nav system, or "sat-chav" as my peers sometimes dismissively referred to it. What a crazy present. I drove the same routes every day, knowing every nuance and kink in the road, never needing direction or guidance to find my way to work. So what was I going to use it for? This particular item was a Garmin Sat Nav, the Nuvi 1310 Widescreen Sat Nav. I remember mentally mocking the notion of widescreen, wondering if I could play DVDs through the useless device. I installed the device in my car to pacify my mother, and banished its existence from my head until I one day realised its worth. Stuck in traffic, I began fiddling with my latest toy, only to discover it could advise me of an alternative, traffic-free route. It even alerted me of impending speed cameras, even if they were mobile. When it began to give me lane guidance for upcoming junctions, I discovered a new-found love for my useless gadget.

When I came to seek a new job, the unit was invaluable, assisting me find locations that I would have been powerless to find had I had to rely on shakey Internet routes and an old-fashioned map. My most valuable of car accessories, the clever Nuvi 1310 even allows you to talk on your mobile hands-free, providing you have a Bluetooth capable phone. That added to the warning of upcoming speed cameras means I have little excuse for incurring costly points on my licence! Yet again, my mum had demonstrated her knack of finding the ideal gift!

The Beauty of Sat Nav

Thank you GPS! After being initially sceptical, I have been completely won over by them. Many people joke that many drivers who own GPS have no clue how to actually use them! This is just one of the reasons why I was unconvinced. Now I found it hard to see myself going anywhere without GPS; especially after the last weekend's events. On Saturday evening I found myself completely lost, which doesn't usually bother me to be honest, but as time marched on I became more and more anxious. You see, I was on the verge of missing my father's surprise birthday party.

Stupidly I wasn't prepared. I had never made the drive to my parents, I used to rely on trains; stupid I know with British Rail's timekeeping. So I found myself in Reading, I was supposed to be in Kent! I was agitated, which is not good when you're behind a steering wheel. The signal on my phone was nonexistent, and my AA map had been the thing that had got me into this mess in the first place! Out of the corner of my eye I saw the bright neon lights of a supermarket, sat nav immediately came to mind. I pulled off the motorway and nipped in to buy one. I arrived just in time to see the look on my father's face.

This urban myth that sat navs are impossible to use, from my experience, is unfounded. I just switched the device on, typed in where I was going and it gave me clear understandable directions; it was as easy as that. I've became so attached to my sat nav I've named it Barbara. I'm not one to be caught up in new technology but I'm beginning to have a change of heart. What other car accessories have I yet to discover? Such is my poor sense of direction it could be time to invest in a vehicle tracking system!