11 tales of dashboard drivers led to disaster by their sat-navs(PA Archive)

The arrival of the sat-nav was supposed to banish the A-Z to the back seat for good, leaving your passenger with nothing to do but stare aimlessly out of the window. It was meant to make once painful unfamiliar road trips a veritable walk in the park.

Instead we've now got taxi drivers swapping the Knowledge for dashboard-mounted navigational pals and people blindly following every single direction spoken by their sat-navs.

T3.com is here to guide you a little more safely through the greatest GPS gaffes on record. Navigate through our gallery for some spectacular (though thankfully non-lethal) sat-nav disasters.