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KC

On 5/30/2014 12:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:19:29 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I'm sure your GPS will tell you "In 1.5 miles, turn right onto Stupid
Lane," the point being that usually you don't have to look at your 6"
screen. Also, there are phones out now with 5" screens. Stand-alone GPS
units for cars are well on the way to being obsolete.

Spoken by somebody who spends their time in a van, strapped in the
wheelchair row... I drive a lot of places where roads are very
congested, and driveways can be confused with roads, or one way streets
can be intersected to the main intersection and with a trailer I don't
want to make a mistake of taking the turn 400 feet ahead, instead of the
one 450... For huge north east intersections, the lane assist of the 6
inch screen is easy to check quickly to make sure you are picking the
correct of the 6 lanes ahead of you heading into NYC... I noted that I
don't want a bigger phone than the one I have but you are too stupid and
eager to drool over a presumed slight, you missed that part... Either
way, your google knowledge is as useless when it comes to GPS as most
other things you take on...

I always wonder how people found their way around before they had a
GPS in their car.
I managed to drive around 50,000 a year in my "IBM Factory" job all
around the DC metro area and later the 5 county area around Ft Myers
with nothing more than a map and a good sense of direction.
I fear these GPS units will cause that skill to be lost like we have
done with all the other basic skills we give over to technology these
days.
Have you ever watched a kid (anyone under 30) at the counter try to
make change if the register was down?

I drove for years for a Same day Mail Service out of Bradley, would see
Springfield, Boston, Hartford, Philly, Boston, then home on any given
day... I used an atlas from Staples... it did me fine but was not nearly
as easy as my GPS