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[JD]

6 yr old death blamed on GPS by mother
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2014309399_trgpsdanger27.html

There are other examples. About 10 years ago I read about a German
couple driving off an unfinished bridge in heavy fog to their death.
Seems unlikely to me.


On 04/02/2011 08:24 AM, Tom Freeman wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 04:11 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> Being an old fogey doesn’t mean the same as being an old dog – you can 
>> learn new tricks. I have a road atlas and usually stop and get the 
>> state map for whatever states I’m going through and I used them often 
>> for various trips. However, once Mapquest became available I didn’t 
>> feel I’d dumbed myself down any for using nor do I feel that way using 
>> the GPS built in the car I bought 2 years ago. For my last few major 
>> road trips I’ve printed Mapquest AND used the GPS mainly to see what 
>> the differences were. They do tend to pick slightly different routes. 
>> On my Saskatchewan trip Mapquest had me bypassing Wisconsin and going 
>> into Minnesota but my GPS put me through western Wisconsin.
>>
> Sorry if I gave the impression of not learning new tricks. I do have a 
> GPS, I do use a GPS, and I do use online maps. I also irritate the girl 
> friend by not stopping and asking questions early enough for her to be 
> comfortable.
> 
> Best use of a GPS to date for me has been has been giving it to an older 
> female relative. She gets fascinated by our position crawling around a 
> map, and stays quiet and happy while we get to our destination.
> 
> The inner city of Atlanta strikes me as a nice place to have either GPS 
> or a navigator, with a navigator being prefered. Like the city of 
> Boston, blamed place was laid out by drunk cattle... (And yes, I've had 
> to navigate both cities solo by car. Both can be interesting experiences.)
> 
> What my original query was, is there any information known to this list 
> that suggests GPS modules are a help, or a hinderance, to people in 
> general learning to navigate the real world. So far, a lot of blather, 
> and I'm guilty also, and not a drop of data.
>>