I use it to avoid traffic
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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.
It's random because everyone is using GPS to determine the routes that are not contested resulting in those areas becoming contested.
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!
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.
Haha this guy doesn't fuck. He's just lazy 🦥
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.
"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"
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
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
Guy at work always wonders how I get to the jobsites before him and he’s stuck for 15 minutes sometimes… I look up the traffic using maps first.
I'll use Google maps to check for traffic on my route before leaving, but that's all.
If I'm going somewhere I've been more than two or three times, I don't use GPS.
But...what if the traffic changes after you leave?
For some reason, I like to know when I will arrive.
Ultimately nobody survives anyhow, enjoy the time you have while you can.
I'll enjoy it while not being lost at least
Sometimes theres traffic and the gps lets you know to avoid it!
Yeah, I always use navigation even on very familiar routes. Saves me time when there's an accident or unexpected event ahead of my route.
Right, and road closures. Even if I know the route like the back of my hand, I turn on navigation for the real-time information.
I've been saved many hours of sitting in traffic thanks to notices of road closures, car crashes etc
The only thing I use GPS for is to zoom in and see exit numbers before I get to them. I am a weirdo and when I go somewhere once, I am usually good to go.
In my defense, I use it not because I don't know how to get where I need to go, but because it shows real time traffic info that could help me find another route to avoid said traffic rather than being stuck in that traffic. Driving through local roads to get to work sucks because sometimes it's fine but other times there are accidents or roadwork that causes backups.