[susannah59]

I think that people tend to turn off their brains when they’re using GPS.

When you are at least somewhat familiar with the area, it’s easier to know when you are being led astray, but even if you don’t know the area, you should be able to avoid things like driving down a muddy road, or into a farmer’s field, or into a lake, or off a cliff.

Doing that requires that you pay attention, and think!

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

How many of us have actually question gps and stopped to ask for instructions the old fashioned way, when in doubt? I have and glad I did.

[hanamizu]

When you are at least somewhat familiar with the area, it’s easier to know when you are being led astray

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Last week I used Waze to navigate to a shooting range I had been to a few times before, but it’s out in the boonies. Anyway, I knew the first part perfectly well so I ignored directions to turn onto a different highway. It then started hectoring me to turn around at every little street and road. Knowing better, I kept going, until I reached the flooded part of the highway and had to turn around.