Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Yes, but sometimes a gps gets you from town to town by going thru this town and that town, and that ghetto, and that borough.
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Yes, but sometimes a gps gets you from town to town by going thru this town and that town, and that ghetto, and that borough.
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
All that'll do is give them an excuse to put Michigan next to Texas, and expect you to be there in 10 hours.
I just don't experience that. Been maybe 3 or 4 times its had me get off one exit early or late but that's no big deal for as rare as it has been. I often check several routing options and the first choice the GPS gives me is almost always the best.
As you know I'm in a sprinter so not concerned with low overpasses etc so that probably makes a difference.
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Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Thus, the atlas beforehand... and checking out what the gps gives as a route.
Way back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I used the big atlas for cross-country trips, then tried to get local maps when I got to town. The local map will have all the streets in it, so that helps quite a bit. Sometimes maps fail, then I would call the non-emergency police number-- the police have to know how to get to anyplace in town and they have the most up-to-date map as a result.
I sometimes worry a bit about GPS, and here lately about driverless cars. Yesterday, my GPS took an excursion-- which I didn't join-- across farm fields, through bramble patches, across a lake, a river and back across farm fields, all of these places giving no indication that there had ever been a path there much less a road with bridges to get across the lakes and rivers and so on. I fear being in a driverless vehicle dependent on GPS for its navigation, if it followed the path I saw my GPS depart on you would drown if you didn't get run down by the enraged bull first. For some reason, the unit will draw an arrow-straight pink "routeline" that deviates substantially from the curves that the Interstate highway you're actually on is taking. I never could figure out why it does this, since the route it's "taking" is absent of any suggestion that pavement ever has or ever will exist along that line.
I sometimes worry a bit about GPS, and here lately about driverless cars. Yesterday, my GPS took an excursion-- which I didn't join-- across farm fields, through bramble patches, across a lake, a river and back across farm fields, all of these places giving no indication that there had ever been a path there much less a road with bridges to get across the lakes and rivers and so on. I fear being in a driverless vehicle dependent on GPS for its navigation, if it followed the path I saw my GPS depart on you would drown if you didn't get run down by the enraged bull first. For some reason, the unit will draw an arrow-straight pink "routeline" that deviates substantially from the curves that the Interstate highway you're actually on is taking. I never could figure out why it does this, since the route it's "taking" is absent of any suggestion that pavement ever has or ever will exist along that line.
I find it easier to just blame Jill.
Thousands of people listen to Jill
every day. She's the voice of the
Garmin GPS (American Jill),
T-Mobile, Nuance's REALSPEAK
text-to-speech engine, dozens of
IVR and touch tone systems, plus
national commercial, documentary
and training narrations.
I wonder if Jill has any idea how many times she's been told to STFU? Probably does...
Directions were always adequate my problem is they sometimes lacked informational details I.e. how much distance between turns. Sometimes it made you wonder if you missed a turn and you right on the margins.
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runrunner
Veteran Expediter
I tried using two GPS units,after a few days of there arguing and bickering back and forth I went to just one.
When I first got started in '94 hauling airfrieght out of Hartsfield, Atlanta, I relied on an atlas to get me to the city or town and then stopped and bought a local street map. I had a collection of them. To this day, even with a GPS, I still rely on Atlas and use it several times a day.
KickStarter6
Veteran Expediter
The biggest goof my Garmin has made is I always select no off road and it sent me down a clay dirt road in Georgia for like 15 miles. After I checked my iPhones map app I could went 5 miles further down a highway and connected thru an actual road
when with roberts express got close to del and stopped and ask a lady of the night and she said about 2 blocks and make a left, and asked anything else you want
she tried to keep from laughing and later watching cop's they were looking for people who might want to spend time with them
and thinking all he wanted was direction for factory
she tried to keep from laughing and later watching cop's they were looking for people who might want to spend time with them
and thinking all he wanted was direction for factory