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Almost two-thirds of UK motorists (63 per cent) would be lost without their satnav, research has found.According to 1,000 drivers in a survey by esure, motorists drive around 36 billion extra miles each year when they are lost, with one in six drivers not carrying a map in their car, askaprice reports.

However, some 11 million drivers were unable to read a map reference, the study found, with 68 per cent of men knowledgeable on their map skills compared to 62 per cent of women.

Ordinance Survey spokesperson Scott Sinclair commented that motorists need to overcome their reliance on technology and should take “a refresher in map reading skills”.

But satnavs can also have an environmental advantage, according to researchers in Taiwan.

When testing drivers with half using technology and half using paper maps, satnav journeys were an average of seven per cent shorter in distance, vunet reports.