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Originally Posted by Viseguy
You're kidding, right? Or maybe you don't drive.
I'm out of town on vacation. Today I used the GPS to find the nearest post office. After that, we wanted to take a walk on nature trail. A couple touches of the screen brought up a list of a dozen parks in the area, then gave spoken and visual directions to the one we chose. Yesterday I used it to navigate to and around the nearest big city.
When you're in unfamiliar territory, or even when you're close to home, there's nothing like knowing the distance to the next turn or interchange, the direction of the turn and the lane you need to be in to make it, the speed limit at any given location (and your current speed), the distance remaining to your destination, the estimated time of arrival. Other good stuff includes a spoken announcement when approaching a rest area or other point of interest, or a beep when you're in range of a traffic camera. The list goes on.
Once you experience these amenities, you'll wonder how you ever managed without them. It definitely beats getting half-baked directions in a gas station at one in the morning. (But the GPS will guide you to the nearest gas station if you need one.  )
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No, you have got to be kidding...I packed the entire Rubicon Trail when I was 17 by myself with my pack a tent a compass and a topo map with my fishing gear. I spent 4-6 weeks above 9500ft in either the Sierra's or Rockies every summer until I was in my early 30s and never needed more than a compass and a topo map but once you have your destination sighted you're done. All that remains is not dying...and that is the easy part. And for a living I drove 75k miles/yr for business for nearly 2-DECADES and never once got lost...dude whenever I hear or read comments like yours that you "need" these things I tag that person as food in the wild or when the lights go out...most would die without a Starbucks on 3 of 4 corners at every other intersection if one thinks they NEED a GPS to drive somewhere that is on a map. Look at it before you leave and you're done because you know where you need to be...it's that simple.
Like I said needing a GPS is like these people with the full-time 4x4 the need to navigate that moist driveway with a 3-degree incline and a hand cart for the bag of oranges in the back...
Then again GPS people are gonna be the bait when the zombies take over next year...hehehehehe...
