Microsoft Street and Trips

It ain't illegal, it is up to the officer. And they have been passing out tickets. And I used to do the laptop stuff, I'll stick with the puny little Garmin on my dash. The PC laptop was so unreliable, always needed rebooting at the worst possible times, etc.

The Garmin just works, just like my Mac. No more PC's for me.

Mike

 

Which is why mine is in "hibernation" mode whenever I am stopped.

 

I use both. The PC is more reliable than the Garmin in inner city driving situations.

None of my PC's ever needing rebooting at a critical time.

I've rolled across every scale there is to roll across. With my PC on and in full view. Never had an issue....even in AZ. But then again, I have my fonting and visuals set so high, you can read the map from across the median...#### near it.

NM DOT thought it was cool

 

Arizona had an issue with this. It's my understanding, they modified the law to accomodate the GPS usage.

All of the above is true.

I'll go one further than that.... I live in a town, that is 3 miles across in any direction. I have lived here for most of my life.

I had a driver ask me were 2nd Avenue was. To which I responded, we don't have a 2nd Avenue, where are you going?

I got him where he was going...took him there myself. It's kinda hard to get a truck in.

Imagine my embarrassment when I read the street sign.....3 blocks from my house. A street I drive on everytime I'm home.

2nd Avenue.

 

There is no way I could have my laptop up front with me while I'm driving. The urge to use it would be to great.


Anyhow, my brother in law got a Tom-Tom for $100, when I ever get home, I'm thinking I might get me one. I know they will lead you under a low bridge, but you can't rely on them them, just use them as a tool. What I want one for is I'm getting older, and the eyeballs aren't as good as they used to be, especially in the dark. When I'm approaching an intersection on a dark rainy night it would be nice to glance at a little screen on my dashboard to see what the name of the street is instead of slowing down to 5 mph and trying to find the hidden street sign.

 

The ONLY state to give drivers flack for having an "open lap top" was New Mexico, and they stopped until there is a "Determination" from the DOT. There were several drivers ticketed for "watching" television because the lap tops were capable of playing DVD's on.
Doesn't seem to make much sense to me, some of the newer "dash-mount" GPS units are capable of playing PSP or IPOD scaled-down video.