Comments on: Podcast 01/22/2007 : All about GPS http://www.pcmech.com/article/podcast-01222007-all-about-gps/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/podcast-01222007-all-about-gps/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Rich Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:23:10 +0000 http://www.pcmechtv.com/2007/01/23/podcast-01222007-all-about-gps/#comment-5 I don't eat at Taco Bell. I don't drive a Hummer. I drive an '05 GMC Canyon with a 4-cyl that gets 26mpg on the highway. My GPS is a Garmin StreetPilot c340.My c340 has paid for itself almost three times over in the gas and time I've saved, even with the "aimless" driving included, as you put it. A printed map never did that for me, and never will. I will never go back to printed maps.If you don't want to buy a GPS, go to any car rental place, rent a car for a day, and rent along a GPS with it (usually a Garmin StreetPilot c340). Very inexpensive. Then you can decide for yourself whether you want one without paying full retail. I don’t eat at Taco Bell. I don’t drive a Hummer. I drive an ’05 GMC Canyon with a 4-cyl that gets 26mpg on the highway. My GPS is a Garmin StreetPilot c340.

My c340 has paid for itself almost three times over in the gas and time I’ve saved, even with the “aimless” driving included, as you put it. A printed map never did that for me, and never will. I will never go back to printed maps.

If you don’t want to buy a GPS, go to any car rental place, rent a car for a day, and rent along a GPS with it (usually a Garmin StreetPilot c340). Very inexpensive. Then you can decide for yourself whether you want one without paying full retail.

]]> By: Wayne Brantleyhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/podcast-01222007-all-about-gps/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Wayne Brantley Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:56:51 +0000 http://www.pcmechtv.com/2007/01/23/podcast-01222007-all-about-gps/#comment-4 Since I make at least 2 round trips from Texas to Nova Scotia every year, I've been looking for an excuse to buy a GPS, this isn't it. 1. Only alternative to GPS is "stone age" paper maps, seemingly ignoring a route app on a laptop. 2. One breath talking about saving gas with a GPS, then talking about playing the "right-left" game, aimlessly driving around with no destination in mind.Tsk Tsk 3. Learn street names with their GPS. Right, just like they learn to spell with their spell-checkers 4. Tell their kid when they are going to get there. Tell the kid to quit whining - knowing when you're going to get there doesn't get you there one second earlier.Most Americans can find Taco Bell with their Hummer without a GPS Since I make at least 2 round trips from Texas to Nova Scotia every year, I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy a GPS, this isn’t it.
1. Only alternative to GPS is “stone age” paper maps, seemingly ignoring a route app on a laptop.
2. One breath talking about saving gas with a GPS, then talking about playing the “right-left” game, aimlessly driving around with no destination in mind.Tsk Tsk
3. Learn street names with their GPS. Right, just like they learn to spell with their spell-checkers
4. Tell their kid when they are going to get there. Tell the kid to quit whining – knowing when you’re going to get there doesn’t get you there one second earlier.

Most Americans can find Taco Bell with their Hummer without a GPS

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