The GPS thinks I’m either a bad driver or dumb. We purchased a GPS prior to our departure for our car back home and became quite fond of it and its use. I used it for our trip to Orion and back and back again. We were excited to have a GPS to use while we are in the Netherlands as it makes it much easier to have confidence in where you are going. I love this GPS except for one thing….it thinks I’m dumb. I think it took a while to figure out my driving style, took a look at my patterns of driving, weighed my decision making skills and concluded that it needed to step it up a notch to help me. I know it really didn’t do those things, but I don’t remember it telling me 5 times that a turn is coming up when we drove to Gapinge the first time. I’m starting to talk back to it. When the soothing, kindly British accented voice tells me there is a turn coming up in 1000 meters, then 500 meters, then 300 meters, then turn NOW! I have started to say “I KNOW!” The next thing it has started to do is to tell me to stay on the road. Now why does it have to tell me to do that? Am I not already staying on the road? Does it fear that I might take a sudden turn and plunge us off into a canal? The final straw is the nagging it does to “Please obey the speed limit”. As 50 cars fly by me, some blinking their lights and honking, this thing seems to know something that they don’t. I have also taken to speaking back to this admonition with a “Tell that to them!” Pointing at the other drivers in disgust. All in all I’m glad to have a GPS, but I think I need to program it with a voice that matches the commands…maybe someone like Rosanne Barr, or Mr. T. I would listen to him.
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