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Excitement immediately extinguished by the $10 a month charge…
So, not just content to make a phone, which people insist on using while driving, they make it have all sorts of stupid gadgets people play with incessantly. And now they include one that ensures people will be playing with it constantly while driving. What a fabulous idea, I’m so glad Apple is so cool and innovative to have eliminated the need for us to read a fucking map before we go somewhere.
Iiiiit’s a turn-by-turn GPS. You put it on your dashboard and control it with your voice. It’s no more dangerous than any other GPS.
Ever been on the turnpike, for instance, after exit 14 where it splits to the eastern and western spurs, and that guy in the right lane headed toward the western spur darts over to the left to get the eastern spur at the last second, despite having driven under 5 10 foot high, spotlit signs indicating exactly what is about to happen? Or been behind the person who jams on their brakes 1 mile, a 1/2 mile, a 1/4 mile, and 200 feet before they turn? Thats the person relying on their GPS.
Those things are for
- People who do not know how to plan ahead.
- People who are unable to read road signs.
- Stereotypical women.
- Idiots.
About the only time I can see it being necessary is going through a windy neighborhood at night, but thats what street signs and landmarks are for.
I have 2 GPS’s that we received as gifts or from promotions or whatever. And I never think to use them because as Evan said….I actually plan ahead. I’m sure they’d be great if I got lost or something but I can’t imagine just hopping in our cars and relying on those things, either the free standing ones or on my iphone.
As a stereotypical stubborn man who prides himself on his ability to navigate, I will never use a GPS. It’s like pulling into a gas station to ask for directions while your wife looks disappointedly at you and your man skills, over and over again.
I’d have no problem using them if I were lost or if I were in a city that I was unfamiliar with and didn’t have my computer with me or something. But just for going on a longer trip or whatever that I have time to plan in advance for….nah.
Living around Boston, I use my GPS almost every time I go someplace. I’m totally self-sufficient when walking around and taking the T, but when it comes to driving, forget it. Once I move to my new place near Cambridge, I’m hoping to become way more familiar with the streets and not have to depend on Helga-my-British-monster-struck-guide as much.
i think the “stereotypical woman and men” can actually just be placed solidly into the “idiots” category.
i googlemap shit and print it out when needed. if i got a GPS, considering most of them TALK, i’d like to think i’d still be reading signs and actually paying attention to the road.
mandy said:i think the “stereotypical woman and men” can actually just be placed solidly into the “idiots” category.
I think your thinly veiled hatred of me is funny and appropriate.
Jay said:mandy said:i think the “stereotypical woman and men” can actually just be placed solidly into the “idiots” category.
I think your thinly veiled hatred of me is funny and appropriate.
i was more referring to Evan’s comment, however since you bring it up, i only hate you online. if we hung out i’d probably dig you.
I actually do think you’re an idiot.
And stereotypical men was not included. The stereotypical man doesn’t need a gps.
Evan said:I actually do think you’re an idiot.
And stereotypical men was not included. The stereotypical man doesn’t need a gps.
it still stands that both stereotypes are idiots. and if you think i’m included in that category then you’re sadly mistaken.
I don’t. And I was referring to Jay being an idiot.
He knows why.