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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. It's been my casual and unscientific observation that
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 03:15 PM
Sep 2019

people who depend on Navigation apps tend to take longer getting somewhere, haven't a real clue where they are most of the time, and have no overall sense of the roads.

I understand that not everyone is very good at reading maps, but most people can do so. It's the never looking at the map in the first place that seems to me to be the problem. I always look at maps. I have them in my car. Thank you, AAA. The last time I got "lost", meaning I took a wrong turn along the way and wound up taking thirty miles longer to get to my destination, was about four years ago.

I'll match my map-reading skills against your app any day of the week.

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