Your GPS took you where??

You didn't hear about the woman and her son out in Death Valley who followed their GPS unit and got stuck in some desert several months ago? Or the guy in WI following the directions and turned onto a snowmobile trail last winter? Both of those stories hit the news!

 

GPS units are "tools" they are not perfect and never will be
I REPEAT "NEVER",call Garmin and they will tell you the same thing.

Its up to the user to determine,not take for granted what the unit displays.

With the highest level of skepticism/caution Ive still been routed on to surface streets and even directed to cross the runways at Nashville airport.

Its no different then any other "TOOL" you have to be smarter then what your working with other wise you are

 

one of my co-workers followed his GPS a little too seriously and turned into the wrong driveway of a customer. They have the car entrance and the truck entrance, the car entrance, once you turn into the lot you go 20' and then your under a portico of a building with a 10' clearance, the truck entrance has no overhangs. He tried to squeeze a 13'3" tractor under a 10' building, needless to say, he was fired and the damage bill has never reported to the rest of us, but I know that there will be no X-mas bonuses or pay raises this year.

 

I don't have GPS...I don't need GPS and I don't want GPS! EVER!

 

I never wanted one either but I got mine cheap on a second hand deal
If it weren't new in the box with extended warranty and all that I wouldn't have helped the guy out by purchasing it.

Comical toy for sure,but I'll admit it has shown things I would have missed without it.
Maybe some day ........ but as it stands their limited accuracy and dependability aren't worth the sticker prices

 

in a truck, I use it to keep me from missing an interchange or something, and tracking my speed and ETA. thats about it. I understand how they can be VERY handy for finding adresses (think MMR and ambulance, etc)

Now, on my motorcycle, i find it to be invaluable. Keeps me pointed in the right direction even if I make my own route as I go, and it is a whole lot better than taping a map to the gas tank like the old days. It makes for a whole lot less stops to check the map.

 

Naah, the map goes in my pocket as I'm riding the bike and folded to the section I need and gets changed every 130 miles when on a road trip to the next 130 mile section! I just use my PCMiler to do my route then print it out! But around home ..who needs a map! LOL. A mile on the bike is better than a mile in the truck!

 

I have a gps... But only use it as a REFERENCE!

Mine has attempted to put me off onto logging trails, minimum maintenance roads, residential sections in NYC, & the most comical..... It tried to put me out on the middle of the White Sands Missile Range.

Always use a old fashioned map for routing yourself & use the gps only for REFERENCE!

 

I use my GPS so I can talk to someone.

"No you daffy #####, I'm going this way!"