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[tisiphone]

Why did they give the Peter Pan bus drivers GPS units? This results in a gentle 6-mile highway trip down Route 116 from South Hadley to Amherst turning into a bone-rattling 10-mile trip over the back roads for no reason at all. I'm sick. I shouldn't have to put up with this absolute nonsense. Grump!

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[arelenriel.livejournal.com]

What the hell??? That is utterly ridiculous- especially since that trip, or any other trip within Massachusetts is simple and straightforward unless they close down the highways

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

In England, GPS devices have gotten big trucks stuck in the middle of small towns with roads too narrow for trucks. People are thrilled.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Also expensive cars stuck up tiny cart tracks :)

[wherever.livejournal.com]

It's odd that sometimes my flist seems to have themes. Another of my friends on the same page was just complaining about their GPS unit leading them astray.

GPS can be a bane if it's not enhanced by common sense. I found this out the hard way when my traveling companion / campmates and I were traveling back from Burning Man (a trip I had taken before and knew well the route home, which is a fairly simple one). Our main driver had a GPS program on his laptop that he insisted on using, and that took us through dusty, unpaved, bone-shaking back roads that filled our rented RV with even more dirt and took even longer to get home than it should have, just because the GPS said it was the shortest way.