• bluGill@fedia.io
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      10 days ago

      Sometimes but the majority of my trips I know where I’m going. Even on vacation I’m generally thinking take this freeway until such city and I’m spontaneously stopping for a museum on the way when we get tired of sitting. Sometimes I’m even this ‘freeway is boring I’m going to find a side route’. Roads go places and for long trips I can navigate by a compass and get someplace. In the late afternoon we look for a hotel we can reserve a few hours distant and then use the GPS to get there. But I don’t want a forced route until then.

      I don’t get people who run the GPS for every trip. Can’t they navigate without it?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        I used to think that as well …. Until I kept running into road closures and construction.

        Now I use navigation even on familiar trips because

        • immediate detours for construction
        • immediate detours for traffic
        • accurate ETA to tell your destination
        • fastest route rather than just the route I’m familiar with