GPS for Dummies!

[badknees]

It is highly unlikely that these folks could read a map. Technology is dangerous in the hands of the incredibly stupid.

PORTLAND, Ore. – In a holiday hurry, Jeramie Griffin piled his family into the car and asked his new GPS for the quickest way from his home in the Willamette Valley across the Cascade Range.

It said he could shave 40 minutes off the time of the roundabout route he usually takes to the in-laws' place.

Following the directions, he and his wife headed east on Christmas Eve and into the mountains, turning off a state highway onto local roads and finally getting stuck in the snow.

They had no cell phone service and ran short on formula for their 11-month-old daughter. After taking exploratory hikes, trying to dig out and spending the night in their car, the distraught couple filmed a goodbye video.

Like two other parties of holiday travelers who followed GPS directions smack into Oregon snowbanks, Griffin and family were eventually rescued. But their peril left law enforcement officers and travel advisers perplexed about drivers who occasionally set aside common sense when their GPS systems suggest a shortcut.

[homerboy2u]

What dumb newbies, even putting to risk their 11 month old daughter. They almost apid a very high price in the learning curve. Any how, i woke up reading today this interesting article on the very basics of How to use your new GPS by REI GPS specialists Ed Robinson and Steve Wood. Do check out the video as well. Interesting.

[homerboy2u]

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[Undertaker]

Technology rarely replaces stupid, it enhances ones ability to really be stupid, government and technology cannot and do not take care of you, you are responsible for taking care of yourself and family, this blind trust in both technology will result in thinning of the heard.