GPS-Go Play in the Snow?

[RICHARD]

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.

[Hellow]

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.

[Karen]

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 ...

[Lady's Human]

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.

[Medusa]

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.

[pomtzu]

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! 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.

[Medusa]

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!

He was really p.o.'ed at his "b*tch on the dash" as he fondly calls her.

Ok, now I'm really scared. LOL

[pomtzu]

Ok, now I'm really scared. LOL

You'll do fine!

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.

[smokey the elder]

I have a GPS but still prefer printed directions!

[caseysmom]

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.

[Karen]

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.

[RICHARD]

I have a GPS but still prefer printed directions!

OR

"Just because your GPS tells you to jump off a cliff, are you going to follow?"

[GILL]

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.

[caseysmom]

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?

[Medusa]

OR

"Just because your GPS tells you to jump off a cliff, are you going to follow?"

As dain bramaged as I am, yes, probably.