Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for July 23, 2023

Yep I drove a rental car all last week in a city I’m not familiar with. I had to let the car navigate and this kept happening. At least I never got lost.

Siri-ous radio interfence

It’s when it gives wrong directions causing problems. People using it can’t find my address. It always takes them to another part of town and they have to call us for directions.

Sassy GPS.

I always turn off the voice commands and just read the directions as they come up.

I was once in a taxi that had a navigation system like that. When we were almost to where I was going, the navigation system told the driver to turn left, but the place I was going was just a few yards to the right. Fortunately, the driver didn’t blindly trust the navigation system.

Sounds like a really good song. Wish I could hear it.

Our church sits on several acres of land. Google maps put it in the middle of the property. So, if you followed the directions, it took you to a side street and directed you to cut across country.

I put in a corrections with Google stating that the church is actually in the building at these coordinates on the property not in the middle of the woods.

So I moved the church about 750 feet. It’s a miracle!

I have to agree….I would rather use a real map, than listen constantly to an annoying voice….who usually sends you to the wrong destination!

Did too! Start the song over, & it will happen again.

Bad enough during songs, but worse during a podcast if you lose two or three crucial sentences while the GPS is giving you redundant directions. “In two miles, bear left at the fork to stay on Route 95, then continue for 27 miles.”

I turned the voice prompts off on my Nav for that very reason. Too “chatty”.

At least you’re not texting…

This just happened to me! Except it was the voices in my head, not the GPS.

My GPS has Alzheimer’s disease. It’s earned it. It’s about 12 years old which is like 112 in electronic years. I may use it four times a year.

Sometimes it tells me I have 3/4 of a mile to go when the bumper of my car is at the intersection at which I have to turn. The map looks correct, though.

Other times it gets obsessive compulsive and repeats itself every 10 seconds.

Whenever I leave a rest area, I get instructions like “Drive 47 miles.” OK, Magellan, do you have any particular direction in mind?