re: #104 KGxvi

“Femsteering” sounds like something Limbaugh would say.

I’ve had some GPS devices that I’ve absolutely hated. I have one in the company car that continues to insist that I drive on freeways that are not moving instead of taking service streets - that shit drives me nuts because when I get off the freeway it then keeps telling me to get back on the freeway. The GPS in my personal car is better than that, but it has to be linked to Sirius traffic and I just can’t bring myself to pay extra for that.

That’s why I like Google maps—you can decide whether you want to do freeways or surface roads, and which surface road you want, ahead of time.

I remember the first time friends came to visit with their Garmin (sp?). We wanted to take the scenic route along the beach road, and the freaking thing would tell us to turn at every single intersection, to get back over to the limited access road. I (oh so logically) was swearing at the disembodied voice, “NO, you fucking moron, we don’t WANT to go that way.”