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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on
a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps |
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:38 -0700, wrote:
3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps Wow - is that right? What other amazing tricks do these devices do? |
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#3
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:38 -0700, wrote: 3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps Wow - is that right? What other amazing tricks do these devices do? They inform you when you've arrived at your destination! |
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#4
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:26:11 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
What other amazing tricks do these devices do? They inform you when you've arrived at your destination! Are we there yet? |
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#5
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:33:00 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:26:11 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote: What other amazing tricks do these devices do? They inform you when you've arrived at your destination! Are we there yet? Not quite. I still haven't finished my plans for conquering the world. |
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#6
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:26:11 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:38 -0700, wrote: 3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps Wow - is that right? What other amazing tricks do these devices do? They inform you when you've arrived at your destination! No kidding. Do they show you where you are real time? |
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#7
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:26:11 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message . .. On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:38 -0700, wrote: 3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps Wow - is that right? What other amazing tricks do these devices do? They inform you when you've arrived at your destination! No kidding. Do they show you where you are real time? Only if your navigator in the passenger seat follows along on the Rand McNally with his finger at the proper time scale relative to the speed your are traveling. |
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#8
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:08:30 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:26:11 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:38 -0700, wrote: 3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps Wow - is that right? What other amazing tricks do these devices do? They inform you when you've arrived at your destination! No kidding. Do they show you where you are real time? Only if your navigator in the passenger seat follows along on the Rand McNally with his finger at the proper time scale relative to the speed your are traveling. Damn - well, that's disappointing. |
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#9
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:43:50 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: Do they show you where you are real time? If you're moving they show you where you were - important difference. |
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#10
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Things You Can Do with GPS Device
On Sep 19, 3:04?am, wrote:
3. Set notifications for your travel route- No more missing an exit on a freeway, and then taking a 3-mile detour! Your GPS navigator can guide you along the way so that you don't miss any turns or highway exits...http://personaltechinfo.googlepages....e_your_new_gps 4. Get so damn distracted playing with the buttons and watching the screen that you run into somebody else, with injury or death a possible result. We've got one of those devices built into the wife's 400H. It has a safety feature included that makes it impossible to do very much with the screen unless the transmission is in Park. I'd be astonished to learn that the portable units selling for a few hundred bucks and plugging into the 12V cig-lighter fitting are similarly equipped. The Lexus also has a "voice recognition" system that allows the driver to name a pre-programmed destination, say "begin guidance", and then the system will give verbal instructions that don't require looking at the screen. "Take next exit, 1 mile ahead", "Take exit in 1/2 mile", "Take exit 200 yards ahead", "Exit now, turn right at end of ramp...." No visual interaction with the screen required. Why in blazes would anybody mount something on top of the dashboard, where it would block vision whether in use or not? A chartplotter is one thing on a boat, where you can normally can take your eyes off the water for 5 or 10 seconds without serious consequence. In congested traffic situations typical in the Pac NW, either you're sitting bumber to bumper on the freeway and averaging less than 10 mph or you are surrounded by 75 mph maniacs who think that half a second is sufficient following distance at that speed. And don't suggest, "get over in the right lane if you're not willing to exceed the speed limit as much as the fastest cars on the road"- we *are* talking right lane. :-) I see the near collisions, disregard for rules of the road, unsafe passing, and failure to moderate wake when appropriate that result from people allowing the electro nav stuff to run their boats. Whether they are willing to admit it or not, a lot of folks are paying more attention to the laptop than to the marine environment and many now leave steering primarily to the autopilot/plotter combo. That's where people are moving 10-15 kts with maybe 1/4 mile or greater clearance in any direction. I don't want the guy in a car a couple of feet away from me at 75 mph doing anything but paying attention to his driving- no nav toys, no reaching for a cell phone, no tipping his head back to drain the last few drops from his cup of coffee, no looking through his CD's to put a new one in the player, nada but driving. Folks living in a rural environment may have less reason to be concerned. |
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