It's a problem to create a generation of drivers who can't go anywhere without
a machine to bark instructions at them. What will they do when their GPS
doesn't work, for whatever reason, and they don't know where they are or how
they got there? It's a problem to create a generation of people who can't
find their way to Point A if Point A isn't in the machine.
Or as you say, maybe that's actually a safety feature. For the rest of us.
> CC: barrie@look.ca; mgs@autox.team.net
> From: arundell@ghs.com.au
> To: redscirocco@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] MG6 Review
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:50:14 +1000
>
> This is a problem because....? Who says conventional mapping is any
> more accurate. Its my experience that conventional mapping can
> contain absolute howlers of mistakes..... I'd rather be in traffic
> surrounded by people listening to GPS directions than be surrounded by
> drivers trying to navigate solo while looking at a map lying on the
> passenger's seat..... From a Road Safey point of view its an absolute
> no brainer..... and given this GPS SHOULD be a standard fitting. How
> often have we been carved up by some moron who clearly has no idea
> where he is or where he is going and out the corner of his eye spots
> the street or off ramp he needs.....
>
> Murray Arundell
> Brisbane Australia
>
>
> > I am also concerned about how they will change driving and drivers
> > in the
> > future, and I think the trend toward including them as standard
> > equipment will
> > encourage people to depend on them.
> >
> > -Mike Eldred
> > Wilmington, VT
> >
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:16:25 -0400
> >> To: geoff@1956mga.com; paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk
> >> From: barrie@look.ca
> >> CC: mgs@autox.team.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Mgs] MG6 Review
> >>
> >> What we have is technologies desperately chasing problems. I do not
> >> need a GPS and when I buy a car I do not want to have to pay for
> >> it. Similarly I do not need a wet cabbage leaf reader so I do not
> >> have to buy one in my new car.
> >>
> >> Hey! whatever happened to cigarette lighters ? Used to use them to
> >> burn leeches off when in Malaya!
> >>
> >> At 11:51 AM 3/28/2011, Geoff wrote:
> >>> Complaining about GPS/Sat Nav just seems silly. It's a tool, use
> >>> it wrong
> >>> and it'll be an issue. There are plenty of examples of dumb people
> >>> getting
> >>> lost in the wilderness because they can't read a map or use a
> >>> compass.
> >>> Shall we complain about that technology too? Don't blame the tool,
> >>> blame
> >>> the idiot using it.
> >>>
> >>> I use my GPS all the time. I travel a bit for work, and arriving
> >>> in a new
> >>> town, I can pull up Yelp on my phone, get a review for a
> >>> restaurant, and
> >>> click a button to open the directions in the GPS functions, which
> >>> can then
> >>> give me walking or driving directions to the restaurant. It's
> >>> brilliant.
> >>> For the luddites out there, I suppose you could catalog the
> >>> restaurant
> >>> reviews from the paper, maybe in a three ring binder. Then, once
> >>> you've
> >>> picked one, find a pay phone (good luck with that) to call and get
> >>> the
> >>> address, then pull out the paper map. Good luck with the rerouting
> >>> if you
> >>> miss an exit or there is construction. Make sure you pull over
> >>> before you
> >>> use the map.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Barrie
> >> barrie@look.ca
> >> 705--721-9060
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