I use it to avoid traffic
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.
I found a ridiculous road closure last week, and GPS routed me through a ton of backroads I had never taken before. It was only marginally faster, but I’m glad I was constantly moving, and not on a highway-turned-parking-lot for those 2 hours. Also, we got to experience some new scenery that we may never have seen otherwise, which is at least interesting.
For some reason, I like to know when I will arrive.
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.
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.
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
s/ancestors/wife
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.
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.
Honestly they should just be pleased we don’t have to spend as much effort and brain space as they did just for transit.
