There is a story about some GPS related disaster about once a month, to the world's amusement. Everyone conveniently forgets the one time they blindly followed some mindless electronic idiot. My personal fave is the one from England where all the commercial trucks off the ferry were trying to go through a village on a road so narrow that the mirrors were being torn off on the buildings.
Life is cruel. If you HAD keyed his truck, a shotgun load of #4s to the knees would have been justice. One of the advantages of intellect is the ability to pick your fights. It's why I'm a backshooter. And proud of it.
I do agree that blindly flowing GPS is never a good idea. However, you over exaggerate the number of those who get into trouble vs. the number of people who use it successfully. In my case, I had to take a detour to get around a road closure. The GPS helped me navigate back to the main road. My only other options would have been to sit for hours waiting for the accident to be cleared or trying to read a road map, in the dark - while I was driving, which would have been much more stupid and dangerous.
Life is cruel. If you HAD keyed his truck, a shotgun load of #4s to the knees would have been justice. One of the advantages of intellect is the ability to pick your fights.
As I said, I thought about it but didn’t for obvious reasons. But what about my “justice”? This guy did something incredibly rude, something that could have caused me to wreck and did so without any provocation on my part.
It's why I'm a backshooter. And proud of it.
I am sure you are. A lot of people are proud to be a-holes. You sound like you need a bumper sticker.