Another near death by GPS story
LA Times What the heck they thought they were doing out there is a mystery. 67 is that road into the park from Jacob Lake that is closed all winter. But they blindly followed the GPS down a dirt ro...
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fj12ryder wrote:toedtoes wrote:With most GPS's if you zoom out you will see a larger scale map the further out you go. Essentially you have a variable scale map right in your hands.OLYLEN wrote:
The problem is not GPS it's the people using it. One must use common sense. JUST AN EXAMPLE-- If I am driving between two cities on an I route and the GPS says turn onto a logging road maybe just maybe it might need to be questioned or I'm on a logging or improved dirt/gravel road and it keeps getting less drivable maybe I need to go back the way I came. Unless of course I trying to be trying to the wife, then it's OK LOL.
LEN
It's the dependence on the GPS. In your 2nd example, how do you find your way out if GPS keeps telling you "that way" and you never looked at a map beforehand to know whether you need to head northeast or southh?
But if you can't read a map...
