A number of US National Parks have explicit warnings that "your cell phone and/or GPS aren't always going to work here!!!" And people still prefer to believe their gadget instead of a map or verbal directions.
Mr. Nutrax & I attended a family reunion in San Francisco. We stayed at the same hotel as his sister & her husband. They had a GPS, we had a paper map. (You can predict the results.) They left the hotel 15 minutes ahead of us and arrived 10 minutes after we did. We took a surface street; they took the freeway that the GPS wanted. During rush hour.
"It's what I'm beginning to call death by GPS," said Death Valley wilderness coordinator Charlie Callagan "People are renting vehicles with GPS and they have no idea how it works and they are willing to trust the GPS to lead them into the middle of nowhere." [He was talking to a reporter about a recent death of a child, where the parent relied on GPS and got stuck in sand on a dead end road.]...
"People are so reliant on their GPS that they fail to look out the windshield and make wise decisions based on what they're seeing," said [a search & rescue coordinator].
"People are so reliant on their GPS that they fail to look out the windshield and make wise decisions based on what they're seeing," said [a search & rescue coordinator].
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