For years I made yearly trips from Canada to Florida, first using maps, then computer-generated maps broken down day-by-day, and then graduated to a GPS. The third option was easier on my wife, who was responsible in the second situation to read the maps, but it stifled the element of exploration.
My wife is directionally challenged. If I’m driving and she says, “I know the way” it means we’ll get lost. So I would tell her to drive and I’d read the map. She won’t listen to the GPS, “I know better!” She once had to take daughter to the airport. The GPS said they were going in the wrong direction. “Mom! This is the the wrong way,” daughter #2 pleaded. “What does it know,” my wife sniffed. “I know a shorter way.”
I admit to having not a lot of faith in GPS. People keep telling me it works better than I’m giving credit for, but my mother has often navigated by GPS while I was in the car, and it usually didn’t take long to see it’d picked the wrong route and land us wasting time blindly trying to look for our destination in the wrong area because of it.
Granted, there is an element of user error here, as sometimes my mother put in incomplete addresses and just assumed the GPS would figure out the rest accurately, but other times it was very clearly entirely the GPS’s fault.
I’d rather navigate with someone telling me directions Abbey-style anyway, because then if I have questions or need clarifications, I can just ask and they’ll at least try to tell me. Won’t get that from a GPS.
Ubintold 5 months ago
Recalculating.
Macushlalondra 5 months ago
I wouldn’t ride with him.
HarryLime Premium Member 5 months ago
For years I made yearly trips from Canada to Florida, first using maps, then computer-generated maps broken down day-by-day, and then graduated to a GPS. The third option was easier on my wife, who was responsible in the second situation to read the maps, but it stifled the element of exploration.
Hamady Sack Premium Member 5 months ago
He runs a delivery service. You’d think he’d know his way around His.Own.Town.
LawrenceS 5 months ago
My wife is directionally challenged. If I’m driving and she says, “I know the way” it means we’ll get lost. So I would tell her to drive and I’d read the map. She won’t listen to the GPS, “I know better!” She once had to take daughter to the airport. The GPS said they were going in the wrong direction. “Mom! This is the the wrong way,” daughter #2 pleaded. “What does it know,” my wife sniffed. “I know a shorter way.”
exness Premium Member 5 months ago
With a serious arm injury I have had to let husband drive all month. He has dementia and has to keep asking where are we going. This has not been fun.
goboboyd 5 months ago
The GPS programed with Abby’s voice, when it has an ‘edge’ to it. With a few choice words chiding you as well.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 5 months ago
Love the GPS, greatest invention ever. I take after my mother and am directionally/geographically challenged.
scyphi26 5 months ago
I admit to having not a lot of faith in GPS. People keep telling me it works better than I’m giving credit for, but my mother has often navigated by GPS while I was in the car, and it usually didn’t take long to see it’d picked the wrong route and land us wasting time blindly trying to look for our destination in the wrong area because of it.
Granted, there is an element of user error here, as sometimes my mother put in incomplete addresses and just assumed the GPS would figure out the rest accurately, but other times it was very clearly entirely the GPS’s fault.
I’d rather navigate with someone telling me directions Abbey-style anyway, because then if I have questions or need clarifications, I can just ask and they’ll at least try to tell me. Won’t get that from a GPS.
bwest.devore37 5 months ago
it might have helped if she took off her sunglasses while reading the map.
Ukko wilko 5 months ago
My wife’s map reading skills surpass any GPS. I think she was a cartographer in a previous life.