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I use it to avoid traffic

Ditto.

Traffic can be very heavy and very random in my city. You never know when a road is blocked.

Every time I don’t use GPS I regret it.

I found a ridiculous road closure last week, and GPS routed me through a ton of backroads I had never taken before. It was only marginally faster, but I’m glad I was constantly moving, and not on a highway-turned-parking-lot for those 2 hours. Also, we got to experience some new scenery that we may never have seen otherwise, which is at least interesting.

It’s random because everyone is using GPS to determine the routes that are not contested resulting in those areas becoming contested.

I’ve noticed google maps always gives me the same, longer route while waze always gives me the fastest one. I believe maps has some kind of thing to manage traffic so it doesn’t always give you the fastest route.

It blows my mind talking to my grandpa. His first question is how was traffic and the next is how did I get there. Then he’ll say well next time take the 5 for 3.9 miles, then hop on 78 until you see the 420 then do a triple lane change to the 69 then you’re home. And then I’m like sure thing grandpa I’ll remember that for sure, as I’m tapping the home button on google maps lol.

My uncle was visiting a few months ago from overseas and I was driving him somewhere in my home town, and he off-handedly mentioned a different route he’d taken to get there in the 1960s lol

“How did you get here?”

“I dunno, I just did what my GPS said!”

“I followed the blue line until it told me to stop”

That was me on driver license course, lol.

Then he’ll say well next time take the 5 for 3.9 miles, then hop on 78 until you see the 420 then do a triple lane change to the 69 then you’re home.

Without even knowing where those roads are I see you are on the West Coast.

Is this that “Californians” SNL sketch?

I had never seen that before… It’s so accurate lmfao

No, it’s real life. I mean yeah I know the sketch, but I was in Crater Lake and heard people actually talking like that.

5 and 78 meet up on San Diego county

Gen X and prior used a lot of landmarks to get from A to B where routes were commonly used. Landmark navigation is still heavily used today in places like India and Mexico where routes change hourly sometimes due to road closures and accidents that gps mapping cannot account for.

I once had to drive pre-google from Paris, France to Madrid, Spain and then to Valencia, Spain with nothing more than a AAA Auto Club map and a Philips Road Atlas. Not fun in many eays, but it was an adventure.

When grandpa asks “how did you get here” its a trap. Whatever answer you give will be wrong and will correct you with a lecture

This is California as fuck.

Honestly they should just be pleased we don’t have to spend as much effort and brain space as they did just for transit.

“Wish I’d had that!”

Sadly it’s almost never the case where people say “oh, life is better for you! Cool!”

Let’s change that!

Life is better for you! Cool!

More time to doomscroll

Studies have shown that using your brain to navigate once you get used to a route is beneficial.

Yeah well, studies have also shown that I’m a lazy fuck, so there’s that

I heard that study was peer reviewed too. Pretty definitive stuff.

We have the same studies.

How about we study deez nuts

Haha this guy doesn’t fuck. He’s just lazy 🦥

Exactly they did not have internet porn back then.

For some reason, I like to know when I will arrive.

Yeah GPS is equally about traffic now and not just navigating

i like to hear the voices guide me on my journey

Not me. I like the directions, but I turn the voice off.

I too like to have a countdown until anxiety sets in.

I’m almost 50 and I never remembered my way anyplace pre map apps. I’d far rather be navigated for.

I drove for a little while before gps was a thing, and I’m so glad to have it.

I used to print out mapquest directions if I was going across town.

God forbid we miss a turn.

I used to print Google Maps directions for cycling lol

I used to buy a road atlas every few years, and for a while took advantage of my dad’s AAA membership (they’d give you free maps)- at one time I had a map of every state (except Alaska and Hawaii) plus a number of cities…

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