GPS use makes you brain dead...
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Where’s my damn rand McNally
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Agree 100%. But it is nice.
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I've been carping about this for almost as long as electronic maps and GPS have invaded society. And what do I do? Get a car with all the navigation gizmos and then drive where "NAV" tells me to go: which often is close but no cigar, she's a faulty girl, NAV is. 
I do miss the map books of yore.
I do miss the map books of yore.
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Even if I've never been somewhere before, I'll have a pretty good idea where I'm going and how to get there because I look at a map before I leave to understand the route. The GPS does mean that I don't have to refer to the map again while I'm driving.
I'll generally use GPS for any thing over an hour, even if I've been to the location hundreds of times. I find the live traffic useful, which does help to route around slowdowns.
I'll generally use GPS for any thing over an hour, even if I've been to the location hundreds of times. I find the live traffic useful, which does help to route around slowdowns.
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If i'm in unfamiliar area, I will use the gps to route point to point (hotel to restaurant). Usually because at that point my sense of direction is messed up. IE, when I was recently in SE kentucky (near OH). The roads are not in grid formation any more, so easy to get mixed up.
But, if I were to stay there for a few days, my bearings would reset and gps use would not be necessary.
For local use, about the only time i'll actually need the gps is last mile directions to get to a specific address.
Knowing how to use a compass, read a map and generate a route should be basic concepts required to get a license.
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But, if I were to stay there for a few days, my bearings would reset and gps use would not be necessary.
For local use, about the only time i'll actually need the gps is last mile directions to get to a specific address.
Knowing how to use a compass, read a map and generate a route should be basic concepts required to get a license.
Isn't that site sponsored by führer fauci?
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If you can’t drive by sextant, you suck.
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None. My GPS has sucked my cranium dry.
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Personally, whenever I drive in Massachusetts I just visualize the fat cows slowly walking down the trails that the state decided was a good idea to use as roadways.... Then I realize I'm not imagining things and the fat cow is just a Karen in a ford Explorer taking up 3 lanes.
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GPS is just modern necessity in a large city, even more so with traffic updates
With that said, when visiting somewhere I still like to view a map and get bearings on the freeway layouts, and major roads ahead of time.
Sadly, there are many people (even those in late 30s/early 40s who pre-dated smartphones/GPS) who do not understand the basic structure.
I actually had to explain to someone born in early 80s that the addresses between 8th and 9th street are 8xx, and also that odd and even numbers are on different sides of the street.
With that said, when visiting somewhere I still like to view a map and get bearings on the freeway layouts, and major roads ahead of time.
Sadly, there are many people (even those in late 30s/early 40s who pre-dated smartphones/GPS) who do not understand the basic structure.
I actually had to explain to someone born in early 80s that the addresses between 8th and 9th street are 8xx, and also that odd and even numbers are on different sides of the street.
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My head compass/GPS has always been pretty good, before car GPS came along & when travelling to an unfamiliar area I would refer to the street directory that I kept in the glove compartment, then “follow my nose” & I usually get there without any issue.
That being said, being from Australia I have travelled to the US a few times & have always added GPS option in hire cars & have still found it hard as my head compass is out of whack coming from another hemisphere, the sun is in a different position & I would also get north, south, east & west wrong.
That being said, being from Australia I have travelled to the US a few times & have always added GPS option in hire cars & have still found it hard as my head compass is out of whack coming from another hemisphere, the sun is in a different position & I would also get north, south, east & west wrong.
HDTurbo
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LOL sextant. This concept started with math, moveable type, the abacus, slide rule, calculator, computer…progress! Yet birds just use the iron in their heads…
