http://www.sphere.com/nation/article...ray%2F19296062
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What should that couple get for Christmas?
A 1:63,360 map, a lensatic compass and a few brain cells.
The woman inside the dashboard don't know any better.:rolleyes:
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http://www.sphere.com/nation/article...ray%2F19296062
Hehehehehehe
What should that couple get for Christmas?
A 1:63,360 map, a lensatic compass and a few brain cells.
The woman inside the dashboard don't know any better.:rolleyes:
How can you be so completely and utterly devoid of common sense as to blindly follow a piece of technology's directions into 1 1/2 feet of snow?
No technology is perfect, and it's suicidal to follow what it says without hesitation and/or without stopping to think about the logicality of following it.
But the GPS company should have had the Forest Roads labeled "danger, do not travel" for at least December through April. Anyone with a lick of sense around those parts knows that ...
It isn't the GPS company's fault.
If a road is called "Forest service road XX" you're pretty safe assuming it's a seasonal road only.
I'll stick to paper maps, thank you, especially after having my GPS flake out in the middle of St. Louis traffic.
Ok, this thread is scaring me. I just got a GPS for Christmas. I'm so directionally challenged that I wonder if even a GPS will help me. :confused:
Too bad the GPS knows nothing of road construction and detours too.
My brother got hopelessly lost while trying to get me to the train station from his house at 2 a.m. one time. He had to do that very uncool, unmanly thing, and find an open convenience store and ask for directions! :eek: He had only lived in that area for a short period of time, and was still learning his way around.
He was really p.o.'ed at his "b*tch on the dash" as he fondly calls her. :p
Ok, now I'm really scared. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
You'll do fine! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
I swear by (not at) Mapquest - it's never failed me yet. I just print it out and pretty much have it memorized before I even leave the house. Of course I take the copy with me - just in case. :p
I have a GPS but still prefer printed directions!
I love love love my gps. When I bought my daughter a car I made sure we bought one with gps for her. She has never gotten lost. She drives all over and feels secure knowing she has her gps.
I have had Mapquest fail on me - it thought a street connected to another when in fact it ended in a round-about, no connection to anywhere. I like to use Google maps, and check the satellite photos as well as the maps.
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Originally Posted by smokey the elder
"Just because your GPS tells you to jump off a cliff, are you going to follow?":):D
I travel all over the US. The GPS is great, BUT you have to use common sense too. I also Mapquest as a double check. Between the two no problems for me. Yes GPS and Mapquest has failed, but by using both I don't.
Exactly how I feel. I can't really sit and read a map while I am driving, particularly when I go into the san francisco areas, there are a lot of rapid freeway changes, etc, how can you sit and read direction through that?Quote:
Originally Posted by GILL
As dain bramaged as I am, yes, probably. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD