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Originally Posted by J1Avs
Tell that to the 75% of Uber drivers who followed their GPS to the tee and went to 10th St, even though my address was very clearly 11th St.  . Again, I’ll caveat that the Uber drivers in DC are a whole different beast than Uber drivers I’ve experienced almost anywhere else in the country.
There is blindly using a GPS, and then using a GPS with some common sense attached - I am of the latter population.
Again my only qualms with using GPS is when people solely rely on it for getting, quite literally everywhere, because they wouldn’t know how to get there without it. That’s not pretentious, that’s irresponsible, and quite frankly unsafe. Being able to land navigate is a pretty critical skill.
And clearly no one figures out the shortcuts because everyone keeps following their GPS  . |
Being able to kill, skin and preserve a buffalo were once also pretty critical skills that are not used all that much anymore. Just saying that being able to read a map (where all this started) is no longer a thing that anybody
needs to know. Should the electronic age's infrastructure fail to the point where it is no longer functioning then knowing where to turn to get to grandma's house will be the least of their issues.