Wait until you turn 80.
All bets are off.

Bill K

I will use google maps if needed but usually I know where I'm going and use nothing.

The Missus on the other hand is as you all say, GPS dumb and uses Waze. It infuriates me when she says, "it is saying" XYZ or is telling you to go that way. She can't read a map and relies so much on the app that she literally doesn't realize that Waze will have you go in a grid box just to avoid a traffic light.

We were going to daughter's college graduation in August and I-35 between San Antonio and Austin was at a stand still. I generally knew how to head north and take some country roads to bypass the problem. I asked her what road it was and she went straight Waze and the 'it says to go this way" began. It took us on 3 closed roads. One of them was just to cut off 1/4 mile on a curve in the main road. I was steaming. It's like a horse with blinders on. No realization of where you are nor where your current road takes you. Actually pretty dangerous when you think about it, God knows where you could potentially end up if you just keep your head down.

Another Waze nightmare: several years ago we were going to Knoxville Tn from Alexandria VA (where we lived). I knew how to take some state highway to Roanoke to avoid I-81 and cut off some time. I couldn't remember the turn off near Roanoke back to 81 and asked her to look it up. She flipped on Waze. That effen thing had us take some goat trail road back north for an hour just to link back up with 81. She had no idea and just had the blind reliance on the App.

Those things are great but you still need to know where you intend to go and how to read a map.

I use the map app on the iPhone through carplay. I have found it to be pretty good for the most part and the voice only warns me for red light cameras and speed on green locations. I like that it tells me the speed limit and traffic slowdowns.
I use it even though I know where I am going most of the time...

I wished I used Waze or some type of app to warn me of cameras when we were up in Calgary. Camera got me twice, all within a week. First was up near the hospital, off HWY 1 going to Banff. Second time was near Macleod Trail near the Chinook Center. It was school zone on a Sunday. Down here is 35 mph when children are not present but no one shows down around schools even during the week. I saw, no strobe, no telling where cameras are, just a letter in the mail back here in LA few months after. Lessons learned.

Strike 2. I'm 80 and I look at Google maps before I leave and seldom print it out. I look where I'm going, use street view to identify some landmarks like a gas station where I turn so I don't have to wait until the street sign comes into view.

Anyone else want to insult me and my wife? You guys are really insensitive and I ain't no woke bro. I wonder if anyone here knows the concept of couth anymore.

I hope you're joking because I'm pretty sure no one is insulting you OR your wife

Same issues here. Then when we get good and lost she starts getting carsick and puts her phone away.:p

Sometimes posts get taken wrong ... I have been guilty of that at least twice .... or 200 times.

We are real people (some of us ;)), with keyboards....and real lives behind them too...

Best to Milt and too Mrs. Milt ....

Wife and I both use Waze and I AM GPS-dumb--I let the car tell me where I'm going and how to get there. That part of my brain has been reprogrammed (except for local stuff and REALLY old data that is archived forever) for other uses.

I use it with voice on; almost never look at the screen. Wife uses it voice off.

Depends where I'm going. Local, and not rush hour, I look at the directions and shut it off. Saves battery power. Closer to the destination, I turn it on and listen.

If it's rush hour, I leave it on if the route is different, as it usually finds a faster way.

In an unfamiliar place, it always stays on.