Today’s [H] Public Service Announcement is to remind you that although the female voice coming out of the GPS may seem to be spot on, sometimes she’s just plain wrong.
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Trucker with GPS Gets Owned
- Thread starter Rich Tate
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snaggletooth
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an unbelievably low fine for the displayed moronics. i picture austin powers and the flatbed cart.
My Magellan RoadMate 860T sometimes will tell me to go the other way, but I eventually find where I am suppose to go. I just dislike it when it leads me the wrong way on a road. I find it hard to understand how for roads it is fine, but the actually address it sometimes doesn't.
I was trying to make a delivery to a house in a subdivision, only to find out the subdivision is 8 years old, and NOT in my GPS. I was a tab angry at that.
I was trying to make a delivery to a house in a subdivision, only to find out the subdivision is 8 years old, and NOT in my GPS. I was a tab angry at that.
My family was staying with friends in Miami with a Garmin. Here is the chronology of every trip we took with them (all actions below by the driver):
1. Decide on restaurant, put Garmin (power off) in pocket
2. Head to parking garage
3. Get in car
4. Pull out of parking spot (From this point on, the car is in motion)
5. Turn on Garmin
6. Exit parking garage
7. Put on seat belt
8. Turn right onto Collins Ave.
9. Program trip into Garmin (aka Search in futility for destination using Garmin menus for 10 minutes)
10. Ignore Garmin
Boy, was I ever shocked to hear that he was T-boned on his way to Disneyworld, two days after we got back.
Worse than cell phones those things. I use Google Maps BEFORE leaving the house.
1. Decide on restaurant, put Garmin (power off) in pocket
2. Head to parking garage
3. Get in car
4. Pull out of parking spot (From this point on, the car is in motion)
5. Turn on Garmin
6. Exit parking garage
7. Put on seat belt
8. Turn right onto Collins Ave.
9. Program trip into Garmin (aka Search in futility for destination using Garmin menus for 10 minutes)
10. Ignore Garmin
Boy, was I ever shocked to hear that he was T-boned on his way to Disneyworld, two days after we got back.
Worse than cell phones those things. I use Google Maps BEFORE leaving the house.
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If I used Google maps to find my house I'd end up about ten miles out of town on a street to the south of the main highway my house is close to instead of north of it.
It finds my house just fine. It doesn't sound like the alternatives mentioned here are any better.
I certainly wouldn't jump into a car and start driving, unless I had a pretty good idea of where I was headed already. We're nearing Peak Oil, people!