Death by GPS

Gallowbraid

Gallowbraid

Adventurist
GPS, much like any technology, is there to provide assistance and make our life easier. Too often though people become totally dependent on technology. Some sad examples in this article of individuals who could have saved themselves with just a small amount of knowledge or a paper map (and the skills to read it)...

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/
 
Agreed, not the GPS's fault, it's the retards who blindly followed the tool and either had no common sense or failed to use it instead blindly (stupidly) believing the technology to be infallible. It’s these type of stories that make me think that most folks would be better off with pubic transportation or self-driving cars that stay on well-maintained roads only. Honestly, if you’re not out there looking for adventure (and at least a little prepared for it) and you can’t figure out that the deteriorating two lane dirt track you’re on is probably not a good idea, and that you should stop and go back the way you came, then you are probably too dumb to be driving (safely) around the rest of us. o_O


<stepping off my soapbox now > :mike
 
I always used USGS maps and a good Lensatic compass way before I got my Delorme InReach Explorer, and even though I now have that, I still refer to my Benchmark Road and Recreation Atlases combined with the InReach and compass.
 
These two are just statistics in my mind. And that is A LOT to read.... but I think I got the cliff notes. Anyway, I always have at least two forms of GPS in the truck where ever I go, and a paper map of Texas, which is larger than my steering wheel when folded
 
Chris Devereaux said:
...and a paper map of Texas, which is larger than my steering wheel when folded
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