tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post8505998954543360048..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: Do you know the way to San Jose?Barry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-73167914780033083932007-12-31T10:47:00.000-05:002007-12-31T10:47:00.000-05:00Barry, your post really, really hit home.I have a ...Barry, your post really, really hit home.<BR/><BR/>I have a 5-yr-old Garmin GPS V, which is really crufty. It seemed neat at first and it saved my bacon here and there, but mostly it was really bad. In Tampa, as we took a major interstate south, it kept wanting us to exit and go onto an access road that would dead-end in a fishing pier. From then on "fishing pier" was our family joke if we didn't believe its directions.<BR/><BR/>It became the GPS that cried wolf. On Cape Cod, we followed a local road, route 28 I think, along the cape. It kept telling us to turn, but we knew our destination was on the same road. Eventually we broke down and looked at a map to see why it was insistent. Turns out we were following a peninsula, where if we listened and turned off, we'd have a good shortcut, hooking up with the same road again in a couple of miles. <BR/><BR/>The latest rage is live traffic info. I'd love to have it, but can I trust it?Frisky070802https://www.blogger.com/profile/02366971082815298119noreply@blogger.com