Printed maps are still much better when looking at the big picture. Especially the fold out road maps.
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If you still use big fold out road maps while driving, you're a danger to yourself and others on the road.
They need a rotary dial phone in those pictures.
You just need to break out your Boy Scout Folding Badge skills and fold that three acre piece of paper down to the size of the exact area you need...
....which is always on a previous fold so f*** them.
Same with staring at a GPS when it hasn't accounted for a road closure and such.
Edit to add. When planning a road trip it sure is nice to see the whole state(s) and possible routes and diversions along the way. Try doing that on your phone. Even a PC you have to scroll around and zoom. Which is why maps are still around unlike the extinction of the phone book.
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Who’s staring at a GPS or scrolling/zooming anymore? Everything is voice command. “Take me to X location” and then Siri/Google/what have you will tell you when to turn, when there might be road closures/traffic jams, etc.
Not always. Although they've gotten better at real time stuff.
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Who the f*** is staring at a phone that's literally telling you where to go?
Edit: lol I am joining a chorus, I see
Yeah. You're in a strange city and the phone is saying turn right and damn if the road isn't closed for some reason. And no matter what you say to recalculate route it keeps sending you back to that intersection. No need to look at a map.
Navin R Slavin
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I mean, it works fine for me, and has for years.
Well it (google and waze) didn't for me a couple years ago in downtown Houston.
Both of my car GPS systems in my Shelby and Audi recognize road closures already.
Damn it, the old Jim Rutherford phone memes from the draft appear to have been lost to the ether.
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