[ale] [OT] Please Help me with my homework

[Tom Freeman]

I took a gander at that link. I must be cruel and unnatural, but 
somebody just missed a Darwin Award. It wasn't the GPS.



On 04/02/ 08:52 AM, JD wrote:
> 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.
>>