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Re: [Mgs] MG6 Review

To: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>,MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] MG6 Review
From: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:30:19 -0400
Max, Max, Max,  !!!!!!

You forget that relying on an LCD stuck in front of your nose is 
todays standard.  Anything else requires intelligence and common sense.


At 07:38 PM 3/28/2011, Max Heim wrote:
>The choice isn't between listening to a GPS while driving and awkwardly
>reading a map while driving.
>
>It's between reading a map and comprehending the overall route, important
>landmarks and critical junctions *before starting out*, as opposed to
>blindly relying on real-time instructions from a GPS while otherwise being
>entirely ignorant of the environment. In the latter case, say the unit craps
>out, or runs to the end of its database and asks you to load a new CD, or
>loses satellite lock in a canyon or downtown district -- you are suddenly
>and completely at a loss.
>
>While if you took the time to create a mental picture of the region and
>understand the major road networks, you would generally know where you were
>in the scheme of things.
>
>I'm not saying a GPS nav system isn't a useful tool. But if everyone relies
>on them utterly, we will wind up with a generation of drivers that never
>actually knows where they are (in the sense of looking out the window and
>recognizing landmarks), and moreover, doesn't even see why that might be
>important. Then the North Koreans will blow up a geostationary satellite,
>filling the orbit with space junk, and bring the whole system down, causing
>immediate chaos on the roads  ;-)
>
>--
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>on 3/28/11 3:50 PM, Murray Arundell at arundell@ghs.com.au wrote:
>
> > 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
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Barrie
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