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I saw this humorous sign when I was checking my pictures on Pinterest and it brought to mind that on the news just the other day were some videos of people that had done just that- trusted their GPS systems and got themselves into bad situations.
I can
see if you are in a new area you would be looking at the GPS
especially if it's in a rental car and you would probably go where it
takes you without giving it much thought.
I
think it's strange though that people would continue on a road where
if they look out the window they can see the path ahead is going
straight into a lake or into a desert .
Some people actually got lost
in Death Valley by doing just that, following their GPS until they
were hopelessly lost and almost died before they were rescued.
It
sees to me that even if you have a GPS and especially if you are in a
new area, maybe on vacation, you would also have an ( old fashioned )
paper map with you so you can look ahead and say to yourself , “No
this can't be right”.
Let's check it again or ask someone. Of course in Death Valley that might be difficult.
I think it's a well known fact though men don't like asking for
ReplyDeletedirections no matter what,or how reading a map in a car
if I asked to turn right it was inevitable men will go left just because.
Signs maps and GPS it doesn't matter they go in their own direction.
We don't need GPS, but don't trust Google maps either, we followed the online directions to get to a horse jumping venue and ended up at the end of a cul-de-sac in the small town of Orangeville, about 10 miles from our destination!
ReplyDeleteAs you say an olf fashioned printed map cannot be beaten.
John