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Post by Cranky on Aug 27, 2008 9:34:04 GMT -5
I've only made it through Montreal "rightly" once . . . using a GPS -- I'll never drive there without one again. Son bought one -- I mocked him; said I use maps . . . he said "why think when a machine can do it for you?". After using it this summer and not getting turned around the wrong direction in MTL for the first time ever, I'm sold! I don't need no stinking GPS......I have a wife and a map. With her quidance and my patience, well, good thing I have really LOOOONG range diesel.  I didn't order it with the car and now it's a $1500 add in PLUS $150 every year for updated discs. BITE ME! Thinking of buying a hand held one soon. |
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Post by Polarice on Aug 27, 2008 9:53:55 GMT -5
I've only made it through Montreal "rightly" once . . . using a GPS -- I'll never drive there without one again. Son bought one -- I mocked him; said I use maps . . . he said "why think when a machine can do it for you?". After using it this summer and not getting turned around the wrong direction in MTL for the first time ever, I'm sold! I don't need no stinking GPS......I have a wife and a map. With her quidance and my patience, well, good thing I have really LOOOONG range diesel. I didn't order it with the car and now it's a $1500 add in PLUS $150 every year for updated discs. BITE ME! Thinking of buying a hand held one soon. I got one last year, and I love it....I won't go on a trip without my GPS now. |
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Post by The New Guy on Aug 27, 2008 10:00:53 GMT -5
I've only made it through Montreal "rightly" once . . . using a GPS -- I'll never drive there without one again. Son bought one -- I mocked him; said I use maps . . . he said "why think when a machine can do it for you?". After using it this summer and not getting turned around the wrong direction in MTL for the first time ever, I'm sold! I don't need no stinking GPS......I have a wife and a map. With her quidance and my patience, well, good thing I have really LOOOONG range diesel. I didn't order it with the car and now it's a $1500 add in PLUS $150 every year for updated discs. BITE ME! Thinking of buying a hand held one soon. Having used both I would never, ever purchase an on-board GPS. My father-in-law got one when he bought his new SUV about a year and a half ago. When we went home for my sister-in-laws wedding that summer we tried to compare it to our little hand held Garmin. Not only did the Garmin get us around St. John's a lot better (although it had fun trying to pronounce Stavanger - much the same as it does with Yonge) when we hit the Veteran's Memorial Highway (which has been in existence for at least nine years) the on-board though we were going off-road and drove us out into what I like to call they grey fog. The rest of the features of the dashboard were nice (radio controls, bluetooth calling, individual climate controls) but the GPS - no sir. My little $300 Garmin was far superior. |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Aug 27, 2008 12:39:53 GMT -5
I've only made it through Montreal "rightly" once . . . using a GPS -- I'll never drive there without one again. Son bought one -- I mocked him; said I use maps . . . he said "why think when a machine can do it for you?". After using it this summer and not getting turned around the wrong direction in MTL for the first time ever, I'm sold! I don't need no stinking GPS......I have a wife and a map. With her quidance and my patience, well, good thing I have really LOOOONG range diesel. I didn't order it with the car and now it's a $1500 add in PLUS $150 every year for updated discs. BITE ME! Thinking of buying a hand held one soon. I love my vacations where I'm finally the boss. All year long my wife and/or boss tell me what to do. I don't need no stinkin computer with a British accent telling me to turn right in 2 miles, turn right in 200 yards, turn right now, recalculating. And I hate it when it calls RT 22 "are tee twenty two. Leave me alone and let me make my own mistakes. (I do admit it's a lot faster finding city addresses in Los Angeles faster than me and my tri-folded collection of maps.) |
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Post by The New Guy on Aug 27, 2008 13:51:12 GMT -5
I don't need no stinking GPS......I have a wife and a map. With her quidance and my patience, well, good thing I have really LOOOONG range diesel. I didn't order it with the car and now it's a $1500 add in PLUS $150 every year for updated discs. BITE ME! Thinking of buying a hand held one soon. I love my vacations where I'm finally the boss. All year long my wife and/or boss tell me what to do. I don't need no stinkin computer with a British accent telling me to turn right in 2 miles, turn right in 200 yards, turn right now, recalculating. And I hate it when it calls RT 22 "are tee twenty two. Leave me alone and let me make my own mistakes. (I do admit it's a lot faster finding city addresses in Los Angeles faster than me and my tri-folded collection of maps.) See man, you're just thinking about it wrong. Does your boss do all the work? Or does he delegate the hard stuff, work a couple hours at the easy stuff (complaining that it's the hard stuff) and spend his afternoons on the golf course with all his buddies who are either (a) also bosses or (b) independently wealthy? Give your GPS the sexy British tart voice (okay, okay - it's not not really that sexy. But use your imagination) and pretend it's your (sexy) executive assistant doing the hard work while you take a nice relaxing drive. |
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Post by CrocRob on Aug 27, 2008 16:13:07 GMT -5
I find GPS units distracting.
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Post by franko on Aug 27, 2008 16:53:04 GMT -5
I find the Sundin discussion distracting  |
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Post by Tattac on Sept 2, 2008 8:59:30 GMT -5
GPS can be a wonderful thing when you are not in a small European town. If you are, it can become a nightmare. Once in Antwerp we had to drive around one small block (with GPS turned off as it clearly wasn't helpig) for at least 50 minutes because we couldn't understand the road signs and all those marks on the road. There were four of us and everyone had their 5 minutes of fame and shame behind the wheel. I think I can become a tour guide in that part of town if I lose my job here. We found our exit by pure accident only to be stuck behind a car that couldn't make a u-turn on a narrow street. It stopped the traffic for another 20 minutes or so. Great memories  |
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