That's hilarious.
We went on a trip to the Rhone last Fall and for the first time used a GPS.
I figure we saved a total of about a day we'd have spent trying to find
our way through some large towns etc., so it was very helpful, and I bought
one after I got home. It also has a pretty good capability to indicate
speed, so I use it in my Jamaican bodied MGA because I haven't got around to
figuring out why my electronic speedo insists on ignoring signals from the
electronic sender in the T5 trans attached to the 3.4 engine in that car.
But I've also noted that it doesn't always use the best and fastest route
and it insists that a street near my house is continuous even though it has
never connected where it indicates - the GPS tells you to turn up a street
that doesn't exist.
Like most modern aids, these things have to be used with a bit of common
sense, coupled with an ability to read a map, and shouldn't be relied upon as
your sole method of navigation.
If you don't think that aids like this derogate from learning necessary
skills, hand a cashier $4.21 some time when you are buying something that
costs $3.96 and watch them waiting until their electronic cash register tells
them how much to give you back - simple arithmetic and the idea that you'd
prefer to have a quarter in your pocket to a handful of small change just
doesn't seem to occur to them. Most of them just look at you as if you are
the weird one for giving them odd change.
Bill
In a message dated 26/03/2011 10:05:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
redscirocco at hotmail.com writes:
We actually
have a road in my town with a sign that says "STOP! Your GPS is WRONG!
Road
closed in winter!" Yet, every couple of weeks, some half-wit in an SUV
with a
GPS has to be towed out of there anyway.
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