Dvorak on GPS: ‘Buy a Friggin’ Map!’

Dvorak, being Dvorak, disses GPS devices: “I’ve had the various DeLorme and Microsoft systems and a number of nifty handheld devices. My conclusion: Buy a friggin’ map! Much of the appeal of the GPS is that the general public today is too stupid to read a map. I know plenty of people who actually think that going north on a map means they are going uphill.” Compares nav systems with backseat driving and asking for directions. Even if he’s trolling, you know he’s having fun. Via All Points Blog.

Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 11:10 AM
Categories: Driving Directions

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I couldn’t agree more with Dvorak! If people could read maps better they wouldn’t have this obsession with not getting lost. They are really neat devices, but anyone with good geo-spatial abilities and looking at a decent map can tell where they are and where they have been. Enough said!

Jim Woods | 10/31/2006 at 1:08 PM | #

At the very least one needs to have a paper map and know how to read it for the times when the gps fails you because of dead batteries, etc. But it’s not a good idea to try to read a paper map while driving in an unfamiliar city trying to find your hotel. Thanks to my talking gps, all I have to do is listen, and keep my mind on the task of driving.

Bart | 11/01/2006 at 11:01 AM | #

Very interesting. I drive a BIG truck. I have a map in here someplace but never use it. Use DeLorme and Microsoft on computers with GPS. I get directions from receiver if it is tuff getting into and then use GPS. Deliver $250,000 worth of meat for the shelves for the consumer and pick up load of what ever is available in the area and go back to Midwest and do it again. A town with out trucks has nothing but going out of business or 4 sale signs.

Ron Hock | 11/01/2006 at 7:47 PM | #

Paper maps are for people who can’t program their VCR’s. If they think north is going uphill, chances are they don’t own a GPS either. It’s not their fault. And besides….isn’t a GPS just an electronic map???? And instead of just getting a map of one state, you could have the whole US. How cool is that?

Janet | 11/01/2006 at 10:15 PM | #

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