1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving?
2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems?
3: Do you print out maps before you travel?
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation?
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made?
My answers:
1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? Probably in Iceland 3 years ago. I had GPS, but the paper map allowed us to look at a larger area.
2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? One of our two cars has this, it sometimes takes us the long way around. In 2024 we rented a car in France that had in-dash GPS, we dug around in the settings and changed her to speak English. I returned a French car speaking fluent English.
3: Do you print out maps before you travel? Sometimes, especially walking directions.
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation? I have had the worst luck with this. I try not to look at my phone when driving. When walking I find it hard to tell what direction is ahead on my phone.
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? I missed a turn and ended up in France ten years ago, only for a couple of minutes. I made a wrong turn and was 15 minutes late for my parents funeral - my brother in law was 20 minutes late and he lived three miles away.
Please share your answers in the comments.
When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? YEARS! I used to get those Trip Tiks from Triple A.
ReplyDeleteWhat has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? Never used them.
Do you print out maps before you travel? No.
Do you rely on your phone for navigation? YES!
What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? I don't recall where I was going, but when I first started going out in Philly, I made a wrong turn once, and ended up where I shouldn't be. A very bad part. I kept driving and ended up eventually at a huge dance club called Shampoo. I went back every Friday for the next 10 years!!!! What a great club that was!
I have heard of being screwed by a wrong turn, but . . .
Delete1. Never use paper maps when driving. You can cause wrecks!
ReplyDelete2. HUH?
3. Nope
4. Nope
5. I don't remember.
I actually don't drive anymore. My vision and my nerves are too bad now.
And you are not the official navigator.
DeleteNever have been, sweetie. I get lost in parking lots. Balder Half is a homing pigeon!
DeleteBeing lost never stopped my father from shouting directions.
Delete1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? That would be the last time I took a road trip, maybe a year ago.
ReplyDelete2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? My only experience is in other people's cars.
3: Do you print out maps before you travel? Yes
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation? Not normally. I have maybe once or twice.
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? I don't think I have a favorite. Wrong turns always lead to pleasant surprises.
You neve know what is around that next corner.
Delete1. So long ago, I can't remember. But I still like paper maps for a sense of perspective, and as you say, larger coverage.
ReplyDelete2. In car mapping is generally good but my car is four years old and a map update hasn't been released. It is very out of date for new roads and speed limits, which have obviously gone down. They never go up.
3. I have done in the distant past. More recently I focused on the road numbering system. I can write down the numbers on paper and sit them somewhere visible from the driver's seat.
4. I often rely on my phone for navigation.
5. More missing the turn rather than a wrong turn. I did so yesterday while directing my learner driver. He missed the turn but I was directing him.
The weakness of in car GPS is waiting for the map updates.
Delete1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? Never because looking at a map when driving could easily result in accident.
ReplyDelete2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? I have one in my new car but I have switched it off. Too distracting.
3: Do you print out maps before you travel? When I go for a country walk I often do this so that I can find the paths.
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation? Nope - as I do not have a smartphone. To avoid unhealthy discrimination, shouldn't the question have read, "If you have a smartphone do you rely upon it for navigation?" ?
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? Once in France I came out of a quiet country car park and forgot that I was meant to be driving on the right-hand side of the road but fortunately I realised this before possibly having a collision.
I made a turn onto the wrong side the street in London back in 1990, it is easy to do when you are driving on the wrong side of the road.
Delete1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? It’s been years.
ReplyDelete2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? My way to go.
3: Do you print out maps before you travel? No.
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation? Often
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? Most wrong turns are adventures. But I can’ think of a specific one.
I have a box full of pop-up maps for travel planning.
Delete1.Trick Question. Actually it was in Vegas and a print-out of an early Mapquest map. The directions were all wrong. That had to be like 2001. Before that we might have used AAA's TripTix.
ReplyDelete2. Hit and miss. It's gotten better. But getting it to recognize what you are asking for has been challenging.
3. See #1.
4. I do.
5. I took a wrong bend on a freeway and we didn't realize it for almost an hour. Let's just say we had a heated discussion.
I have come to believe that when I make a wrong turn, just relax and go with the flow.
Delete1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? When we first moved up the East Coast to find our way around ... so 18 years or so.
ReplyDelete2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? Never used one.
3: Do you print out maps before you travel? Not for a long time; perhaps light rail maps ....
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation? Yes.
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? Not necessarily a wrong turn, but a turn I never thought I'd make ... flying clear across the country to meet a perfect stranger and realizing I was home.
Awe, a love story.
Delete1. I can't remember but it would have been plotted out by AAA. I used to always use them for big vacation trips.
ReplyDelete2. Don't have one.
3. No
4. Yes
5. Can't think of one.
I remember following along on the AAA maps.
Delete1: When was the last time you used paper maps when driving? May. On a trip into the Siskyous and I wanted to know what was around us.
ReplyDelete2: What has been your experience with in-dash GPS systems? Pretty good, although they rely on conventional wisdom and sometimes if you know the area you may know of less stressful paths.
3: Do you print out maps before you travel? Haven't done that in the last 20 years.
4: Do you rely on your phone for navigation? Sometimes - see comment #2 above
5: What is the most memorable wrong turn you have ever made? Rather a turn not taken - I was taking a friend of mine, B, to her sister's apartment after seeing a show. It should have been a 15 or 20 minute trip - including getting out of the parking garage. It was a dark and stormy night. It took us over an hour. B, who was not driving in Los Angeles at that time, remembered the freeway exit that her sister used. We went up and down that street innumerable times. With each failed attempt we were greeted by the illuminated figure of Moroni atop the Mormon temple. We were getting frustrated and ready to retrace our steps, when I said let's pull over and regroup. As we did B exclaimed "There it is! That's the building! Her sister got off the freeway at the Overland exit, but the building was on Sepulveda, just across from the freeway exit. Although we've lost touch, B is a dear and she learned how to drive on the Los Angeles freeway system the following year.
The hardest place to find your way around, if the place you are sure you know you way around.
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