Hi Fellow Seniors?

Question

Do any of you use a Satalite Navagation System in your car, do you trust it, or do you prefer a road map?

Boy, you all have strong feelings about them. I got one for my Birthday and I have only tested it out once when I went to the beach. It took me right there, but I still have a road map in the car.lol.

Answer 1

Use a map. I dont have Sat Nav...... and if I did, my husband would find a way to mess up.

Answer 2

I prefer road maps. I've also used Google.maps, but remember several months (a year?) ago when the couple got stranded in the Trinity Mountains in No. California? There car was stalled on an obscure mountain road in the snow. The husband left the car to find help and died. The wife and child stayed in the car and lived. They used a Google.map!!! Unfortunately, the road should never have been given as an access road as it was snowed in during the winter.

Answer 3

I don't use a satellite guidance system in my car. I am retired now but when I was working I travelled extensively in England and never needed a map or got lost. I followed road signs, and if I got near my destination and needed to ask the way I always made sure it was either a milkman or postman, never a woman and certainly not a child.I'm proud to say I was never late for an appointment either.Sorry if that sounds boastful.

Answer 4

I prefer to use the maps. I usually get online from Google and Yahoo, and from AAA, so I can be sure. Hubby wants a GPS for the car, but I think it's too expensive and unreliable, and I would still use a map because I need to preplan where we go and where we stop.

Answer 5

I really, really, really want and NEED one! Last year I was all set to buy one, then I got a ticket for a noisy muffler, the muffler was $700.00 for a new one and something that connected to it, but I got a free oil change. LOL
I have a severe case of directional impairment. It is the only way I have done any "sightseeing" in this fair city. Unfortunately, when I need to use a road that the name sounds familiar, I am clueless as to how I got there.
Normally, I go to mapquest and get directions

Maybe this year I will get a GPS for Christmas. It would save a lot of gas for me.

Answer 6

Currently car-less, I wouldn't trust Sat Nav.

Call me old fashioned but I prefer to be in control and use a map, my schedule, sign posts and instinct. Besides, I've seen too many incidents where drivers relying on those gadgets end up stuck under a bridge, or faced with impossible corners or worse.

Answer 7

I think I'd have trouble concentrating with a vocal gps. It's a new thing I haven't really seen in use, so I'm still sticking to road maps for the time being. I'm good with maps; I can even refold them to the original creases.

Answer 8

Because of sight problems I no longer drive, I walk a lot or get driven, its great!
So if any of you good looking ladies are planning on taking me for a ride? Well road map, Sat Nav. Tom Tom or the good old following your nose method, I don't mind, but none of that stopping in lay-bys stuff (the very thought)

Answer 9

I use maps all the time. I have a GPS, it makes a great paper weight. But I prefer maps. Currently trying to teach my 7 year old granddaughter how to read and use a map. I copy maps for her to use whenever we go hiking.

Answer 10

They are great fun and can be useful. I tend to know most places I am going and usually check the map then follow my nose but I have found it useful when finding an exact address and on a couple of occasions it has found a route I would not have thought of taking. Ours has a female voice so we call it Mabel

Answer 11

A road map of each area traveled. Oh boy have we had problems with SNS. You want to get lost ? Use map quest.