Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Easy comrade. If you have a car that can safely get you from Raleigh to Syracuse you can afford a GPS. Even so, if you're really bad with directions, maps are cheap (and free from AAA, although I suppose having money to join AAA is also elitist).
Comrade?
It is just that I have met people who do not drive many places who would not buy a GPS for a single trip. The stand alone GPS are difficult to update, not all cars are built with a navigation system, and not everyone has an iphone or equivalent. I know it is difficult to avoid reflecting our own selves onto the general public, but here is a good example where you and I may have different priorities from each other, and from a host of other writers on C-D.
It is just that I have met people who do not drive many places who would not buy a GPS for a single trip. The stand alone GPS are difficult to update, not all cars are built with a navigation system, and not everyone has an iphone or equivalent. I know it is difficult to avoid reflecting our own selves onto the general public, but here is a good example where you and I may have different priorities from each other, and from a host of other writers on C-D.
Every smartphone is a GPS and close to 80% of the population has a smartphone. There's nothing elitist about assuming the OP is part of that 80%, especially given that she's on an internet forum.
It is just that I have met people who do not drive many places who would not buy a GPS for a single trip. The stand alone GPS are difficult to update, not all cars are built with a navigation system, and not everyone has an iphone or equivalent. I know it is difficult to avoid reflecting our own selves onto the general public, but here is a good example where you and I may have different priorities from each other, and from a host of other writers on C-D.
Every smartphone is a GPS and close to 80% of the population has a smartphone. There's nothing elitist about assuming the OP is part of that 80%, especially given that she's on an internet forum.
And especially given that she said she has GPS. She just chose not to use it.
When I asked for help at a rest stop after I had been driving for awhile, the person I spoke to told me that if I kept heading straight on 64 West, I would run into 540. After another hour on the road, I stopped and asked a construction crew and one of the guys told me that if I kept on 64 West in the direction I was going, I was heading towards West Virginia. (More conflicting information) He gave me directions back to 220 that would take me to 81 South and get me back home. I used the GPS from there and admittedly, should have used it after I asked for help the first time. But from where he was that was 3 1/2 hours back from where I had just gone. I was in the car for 12 hours.
Marianne
It is just that I have met people who do not drive many places who would not buy a GPS for a single trip. The stand alone GPS are difficult to update, not all cars are built with a navigation system, and not everyone has an iphone or equivalent. I know it is difficult to avoid reflecting our own selves onto the general public, but here is a good example where you and I may have different priorities from each other, and from a host of other writers on C-D.
I had navigation on my Motorola Razr flip phone in 2006. Just sayin'.
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