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I'm the complete opposite of you. In fact I resent GPS and use them only when I need to find an address in a big city. I'm not sure but I think it's trainable.
by jmnicolas 6y ago
I'm the complete opposite of you. In fact I resent GPS and use them only when I need to find an address in a big city.
I'm not sure but I think it's trainable.
About 20 years ago I had a transportation company and I invested in a GPS device for my van. After using it continuously for a few months, I noticed that I wasn't as good as before at orientation when I was driving my personal car without said GPS device.
I then stopped using it completely and got back my inner GPS.
- ghaff 6y agoBack in the early days of GPS, I recognized that you could either navigate yourself or follow directions (whether from a machine or a person). I at any rate find that I don't really have the mental capacity to simultaneously follow instructions and think too deeply about whether this instruction seems to make sense or not. I assume this is at the root of people doing dumb things because the GPS told them to. If I didn't have a GPS in an unfamiliar area, I'd have a map. And if it were a remote area, I'd have both in any case. Although when traveling in normal times I do tend to depend on having my phone or at least access to a computer, the further I get from my home area, the more I try to have backups--including paper-based ones. But I expect that is increasingly uncommon.