GPS's are the bomb! They not only keep us from getting lost, usually anyway, but entertain us too! We travel many thousands of miles every year with our RV and use 2 at the same time. His and hers of course, but we've found getting 2 opinions from 2 different brands very helpful at times! Bear in mind we are 75 ft long with toad hooked up :shock:
And we still end up making u-turns! But that usually because DH refuses to turn when I tell him to or he changes his mind for the umptenth time!!

I'm a map gal. I've never experienced one except in a rental car. I didn't pay to have it turned on, but that did NOT stop it from trying to get me to get to the Dallas airport every blessed time I got in the car. Grrrr... No idea how to shut it off, so I just kept grumping at it. That didn't make it shut up either, but I felt a bit better.
The only time I wished it was maybe turned on was when I ended up at a four way stop deep in LA. Hmmm-it seems street signs were not a priority in the sticks out there. I went all four ways through that intersection; spent probably at least half an hour going back and forth and sideways. Oh-no houses out there either! I did eventually make it to where I was supposed to though. I still like my maps best.

We love our Garmin. It took us around a Huge traffic jam in St Louis- through residential area and we thought for sure we were lost. Came out exactly where we needed to be to get on interstate for our destination.

My DH takes wrong turns just to her the voice say recalculating. It makes him laugh. The first time we used it, in our own neck of the woods he took a lot of wrong turns. When we arrived at our driveway the voice said "Home. Finally". We just about died laughing!

My DH received a GPS for Christmas. When we go on a trip to someplace we haven't been, he'll set the GPS. And turns it on in the driveway, knowing he is not going to go the way the thing tells him to go. His short cuts!! Then the lady's voice says 'recalculating'. I got so tired of hearing her, I actually started calling her the Road B#$%H!! I told DH I am going to read the instructions and either get another voice or turn her down.

We love our "lady in the box". Been all over the US and she was amazingly accurate. We love to take an exit or head to something of interest, just so we can hear her get her panties in a bunch and say...recalculating, with a British attitude!!!!

Errr - that would be 'her knickers in a knot'! :lol:

I changed mine from the woman to the man because I was sure she was getting a testy tone in her voice if I took a wrong turn - the man is much more supportive and forgiving. If I go wrong he has a soothing tone in his voice like 'never mind dear, I'll get you back on track'. And there's me, pretending to be a feminist! :lol:

You can choose the language/accent/gender on the GPS! I could not do my sales job without my GPS!

In ragardvto my cell phone....someonewould have to e pretty to care what is on mine!
Sandy

You can turn that function off.
S

I never rely on mine anymore. We used it to get home from a short trip and it ended up taking us on a "road" called River Road in PA that was nothing but curves. Ay one stop the incline was so steep we couldn't even see the road over the hood of the car.I said if I tried to tell someone where I was they would have never found me. It was a deserted back road through some park.. Another time it took us through downtown Richmond VA on a trip back from Florida.