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Our navigation is stupid and slow. I'll use my own instincts.

I've seen too many times where i pulled out the gps, but my wife thought she knew better than the gps and was wrong.

The gps may take us a wierd route at times but it will usually get us close. But intuition will get you completely lost.

Although I can see instances where GPS is very helpful, nothing beats human perception and intuition.

My GPS gets live traffic updates and has often diverted me and saved time.

If I know the way I'm not going to follow the navigator...if I was forced on a detour then of course I would.

Those things put me 30 miles off to our camp site when hunting elk..

Depends. In big cities yes because it considers traffic.

My family doesn't own one, so we just go with what we know, hoping it brings us to the right place.

I only use my phone's maps when I don't know where I am. Once I know it, I don't use it anymore.

No, it usually wants to send me down a gravel road. Not doing that to save a couple of miles.

@Lmurder: Exactly. People I know find it odd that I can find a faster/shorter route than their GPS in the City. Then I told them the secret: Open your eyes.

Technolgy can just
go WACK!

If you have a TomTom, even if you don't have live traffic data, follow the unit. It uses something called "IQ Routes" which use historical traffic data to plan the best route for that time of day and that day of the year.

Ahhh, you may be right. Hell, even I can do that. lol

Good point, Badger, but I think he was speaking of conventional navigation.

LMurder, actually, among other things, it IS rocket science.

I took the wrong direction on the highway to pick up my husband when I was pregnant. I was fairly familiar with the route.
I'll follow the GPS.

I have no sense of direction so I trust that thing..but I can always call that destination if I get lost

I go with my gut of course!

Why not go somewhere new?

No way ... I AM the navigation system when ever we drive anywhere.

We don't have a GPS constantly on. If we know how to get there, why would we?

I know most the cities that I've lived in like the back of my hand. So no.
GPS technology will be helpful in 10 years when they really develop it. Just a slow robot for the moment. Plus it's not rocket science.
Visiting new cities yes...but I most likely have it all in my head by departure.

I don't trust GPS... or at least mine. I typed in my friend's address. I was going down a remote road that was near it and it said I had reached my destination. It told me to turn right... into a ditch.

My own moderate experiential (and thus narrow) knowledge of an area vs. a computer system that tracks traffic patterns, road distance, and speed limits?

At the very least I'll try it once.

I don't have a navigation system in my 15 year old Pontiac. I don't need one either.

I hate nav systems. I don't understand why people buy then. I usually use google maps but just to find out where the address is because it sends you the wackiest ways sometimes.

That almost always puts me off course.

I know this off topic but I'm glad soh told me what happened to netflix cuz I was pissed at it last night!!! ha

Ha ha ha rebellion against the machine!

People never update their maps! DUH! Years ago I made sure my dental office was correctly showing on the garmin,google,Tom Tom, yahoo and mapquest maps every day some idiot comes in late to an appointment saying " my .... Map sent me ..."

Depends. If the sat nav picks a route i dislike or if i know another way i think is better, i will go my own way.

On the other hand if i'm not sure, or the sat nav says there is traffic on my route i will follow it.

Waste of gas. Ill take my route

Thomas guide hasn't let me down yet.

I'd be more inclined to listen to my mother-in-law from the back seat, even though she hasn't been in the area for 40 years.

Has anyone else noticed the rise in missing persons in the last few years? And the direct correlation to the increasing number of GPS (Grab People Secretly) systems in use?

My navigation system involves my brain, an up-to-date road atlas, and two Mark I Eyeballs. It works in tunnels, clouds, and mountains. And I never get lost.

the roads I drive on don't show up on a gps, so the answer is no

Had to say no since I don't use a navigation system.

Adventure!

Found too many tomtom goons list on trails to blindly follow navigation

I have a hard time listening to others. Lol

I agree with manly pants it depends. mine tells the arrival time so if its shorter I will

I do not have a navagational system. Unless you count my brain.

I always think I'm smarter than the GPS, but I never am. However, I voted no.

Sure, as long as I'm not in a rush. Who knows, there may be a shorter way to get where I need to be.

It happens a lot when I use the Waze app (awesome app!) sometimes the app thinks it has a better route than my shortcuts.

This question assumes everyone owns a navigation system. Some of us still rely on the lost art of planning, map reading, and pulling-over-to-ask-someone (verbal comminication) skills for getting from A to B.

Portland isn't a good city to become dependent on a GPS. Due to mountains, clouds, etc., there's always interference.

By the way what fantasy wold do you life in if you think it is faster to ask directions. Nobody knows there way around my city

However if I know where I'm going the why would I need a gps