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> we didn't jump in the car, play games on our tablet for 20 minutes and materialize somewhere else My nieces and nephews largely have no idea how to get anywh
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> we didn't jump in the car, play games on our tablet for 20 minutes and materialize somewhere else
My nieces and nephews largely have no idea how to get anywhere. Ask them what direction to travel to get from one place they go regularly to another place they go regularly and they won't have a clue. It could be five blocks south. It could be 20 miles north. They literally have no idea.
Stop somewhere along the route and ask them what direction to go, likewise. They're just completely lost.
And yep, I blame it partly on in-car entertainment. When I was a kid, even when I was being driven somewhere, I was paying attention to the route and surroundings. The rest of it has to do with never having walked, biked, or taken public transportation anywhere.
- ocfx 9y agoI think we also see this phenomenon on people who rely too heavily on GPS. They become complacent while they are fed directions from their phone or vehicle and never actually learn how to get where they are going.
- AndrewDucker 9y agoWhen I was a kid I read books in the car. And never had any idea what direction we were going in. (Except when I wanted to. At which point the map my parents kept in the seat-back pocket was incredibly useful.)