Many years ago I was in a night market in Kuala Lumpur where watches were being sold on one of the stalls. The stall-holder was calling out at the top of his voice, “Genuine fakes.”
There were many of the top makes on display and I’ve often wondered if what he was doing was illegal. It certainly wasn’t dishonest.

GPS speed shown is more accurate than the Speedo in most cars.

Even on routes I know well, I almost always use my GPS. It knows where the traffic jams/congestion is which I don’t and looking at a map book wouldn’t help with.
Recently mine turned me off a route I always used and I was tempted to ignore it. A couple of minutes later a radio traffic broadcast announced a serious traffic jam on the route I would have taken without my GPS.

Sounds like you’ve got shortest route set rather than quickest. What you describe is exactly what happens when my GPS is set to prioritise the shortest route.

My 1976 Volvo was the first model I was aware of that installed running lights that came on automatically and could not be switched off. In daylight hours nearly every driver flashed their lights at me thinking I’d forgotten to turn my lights off.

It seems to me if there is a switch that can be accidentally activated by whomever, and it causes such a severe outcome, there is clearly a design fault somewhere. Nothing of this nature should have ever been remotely possible. Once again Boeing has to notify all operators of a possible problem with one of their planes.

Absolutely not. Pilots are tested and double tested on an incredibly regular basis to confirm their manual skills reach the highest standards of proficiency.

No it did not.
I’m not going to argue with you. I know what all the expert’s views were that were outlined in the film where it made it very clear that this software thought the plane was doing something that it wasn’t and kept forcing the nose of the plane down until it crashed. Attempting to turn off cruise control and fly the plane manually could not be done. Two pilots did not have the strength to overcome this by pulling back on the control columns.
I far prefer to believe the information contained in the documentary film about what happened.

Apparently it did not work that way, which of course resulted in the problem. It was not possible to switch MCAS off. Clearly if returning controls to manual, which these pilots tried to do worked, the planes would not have crashed.
The film Downfall, makes this very clear.

As I said earlier, my grandson is a UK pilot and the pre crash information about how to fly the plane he was given was contained in one A4 sheet of paper which stipulated NO simulator training was needed. Post crash when the planes were allowed to fly again, Boeing advocated two days of simulator training.
You need to watch the film Downfall, which explains Boeing’s awful inadequacy in this situation.
Blaming the problem on foreign pilots is both ignorant and disgraceful.

The 2022 documentary film, ‘Downfall - The case against Boeing’ is worth watching. It pulls no punches as it describes the declining performance of Boeing, especially after the McDonald Douglas merger.

My grandson who is a pilot flies for a company who initially bought a number of 737Max planes. Although none were delivered before the two crashes attributed to the MCAS problems, he received an A4 sheet of paper originating from Boeing describing the issues to be taken into account when flying this plane. After the grounding and investigation into the MCAS issues, the A4 sheet of paper was replaced by two days of training in a flight simulator.
After Boeing’s collaboration with McDonald Douglas, emphasis moved from technical perfection to Wall Street results and therein lay a problem that cost hundreds of lives and the company $2.5b.
The Boeing 737 MAX groundings had a deep financial impact on the aviation industry and a significant effect on the national economy of the United States.

I don’t think we are being robbed when the alternatives are likely to be far more punishing.
Here’s what can happen now
The missed payments can be marked as defaults on an individuals credit report
Any debt can be passed onto a debt collection agency
The energy company can apply to a court to get a county court judgement (CCJ) against you.
However this still leaves massive unrecoverable debts for energy companies, with Putin to blame.
The record level of debt in the system means action must be taken to make sure suppliers can recover their reasonable costs, so the market remains resilient, and suppliers are offering consumers support in managing their debts.”
Ofgem, the energy regulator for Great Britain, said this one-off move would be less costly to consumers than if suppliers were forced out of business.
When wholesale energy prices began to rise in 2021, and soared dramatically after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, about 30 energy companies went out of business.

My wife and I spend around six months of the year in South Africa, returning to the UK in April to enjoy, hopefully, warm summer months until October.
The locals in South Africa refer to us as Swallows

At my age I was astounded to have never found out before that wind chill does not lower the temperature it just makes it feel colder. I’d always wondered how car makers fitted outside temperature gauges to cope with this, but of course they don’t have too. If you drive your car in a set ambiant temperature, it doesn’t matter how fast you drive, the reading remains the same. Only road heat whilst stationary might screw things a bit.
Wind chill though is important when it comes to survival. Although the given temperature might, for instance, be -10c your warm clothing will be far more effective at keeping you warm when there is no wind than it would be if a strong wind is driving the ambient temperature through your clothing.