A GPS doesn’t compensate for a complete lack of common sense, and it always pays to have a backup. Any adult should be able to tell what direction they are going, day or night, if it’s not cloudy and they know approximately what time and season it is.
An analogy would be that even if you have a calculator, it’s good to be able to at least have an idea of the magnitude of a result, in case you fat-fingered the numbers.
I agree...the poor little boy died because his mother had no sense. How do you even go on after such a horrible mistake.
I’ve almost always trusted my instincts before anything or anyone else...so far so good.