funny occurance

[cidersteve]

on my normal commute this morning i was about half way to work , only 7 miles , and the warning beep sound and an audio message said " you have crossed the border "nothing else , no warning lights and the rest of the journey went ok ,same route as normal and no borders in that area to my knowledge ,any ideas anybody or did i possible mis-hear the message.

[Guest]

Interesting. I received "ahead - security incident" at the weekend. There was nothing. Glitch in connected services?

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[Rabbers]

I can offer a couple of purely non-technical thoughts on the subject.   It would have been interesting to know what border the satnav thought you were

crossing.  Had other functions besides Voice been affected by what seems to have been a momentary glitch, the message you heard would have been

accompanied by a gong and the appearance on the display for the flag of the country you were entering, this being a nice little feature of the system,

albeit one that is easily missed because the flag will already have disappeared by the time the message ends.   When, only one or two decades ago,

in-car GPS satnav was less common than today,  concerns were occasionally voiced about our willingness to surrender one aspect of our lives to the

U.S. Military, which owns and operates the GPS satellites.  And indeed, there were occasional reports of system errors, usually of brief duration and

connected to computations of distances, which always seemed to occur when the U.S. Air Force was re-programming or re-positioning (or whatever

it does) its satellites in preparation for large-scale operations such as missile launches !  Could this have been the case yesterday in relation to

Syria?   I must add that I would have considered any such thought ridiculous until, some years back, the carillon of bells that greeted my approach

to Home as my set destination sounded several times when I was hundreds of km away, only for me to discover, when I switched on a news channel,

that the U.S. had started bombing Libya....!!!