this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
274 points (100.0% liked)
Jokes and Humor
6179 readers
193 users here now
A broad community for text and image based jokes, humor, and memes.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I used to have an amazing sense of direction, could read a map, and wouldn't even need it half the time. Going out of state for a concert? Pssh, we'll just wing it. Always got where I was going.
Ever since I got my first smartphone with GPS, I feel like I need it just to cross the street.
Neurons in your brain be like, use it or lose it.
It could be age as well.
If only. lol. I was in my 20s. It was definitely GPS that ruined me and made me second guess everything.
I have huge respect for my parents being able to plan a roadtrip through Europe in the 80s.
Going thousands of km., different currencies, languages and stil being able to show up at the hotel on the hour of check-in. They didn't even have printed routes, like I had in my younger days. They'd just drive by signs, a dated map and lots of planning.
I for one don't miss the unnecessary detours as international maps would only show major roads and cities (which weren't necessarily the fastest or most convenient route), navigating around new roads that the map didn't know about, the arguing / guessing between driver and passenger whether or not it'd be correct to take this unexpected exit coming up very quickly, driving around a town until you find someone to ask for directions in a foreign language, finding a phone booth to call your destination and ask for directions, making a wrong turn in a big city and finding yourself in a maze of one-way roads with no way to turn around, not even knowing where you are to begin with... yes, not to mention that "real-time traffic information" meant listening to the radio in a foreign language to get a vague idea of which areas you might want to avoid (though no mention of how you'd do that).
I for one salute our satellite-wielding overlords and am prepared to follow them blindly most of the time.
It's because infrastructure has gotten so damn complicated to keep up with capitalism and growth of the economy. Things aren't simple anymore. You can't just turn right. You have to get into the third lane on the right hand side of the road but not too early because then you'll get off on an exit.
i mean i suppose you're technically correct, but the answer is more fundamentally that cars are absolutely terrible as a mode of transport, and anything else is much easier to navigate with.
you need like 5 cars to create traffic, with pedestrians it takes hundreds of people in a limited space to do so.