I fall on the 'I really like my GPS' side.
Most of my travels have historically been with my wife. She loves to navigate so we'd decide on a general idea of how we want to get somewhere and she'd make it happen. I'd get state road maps and DeLorme Gazetteers and we'd make a very general route plan. We'd outline the next day's route in more detail each evening and she'd keep us on track. (And I enjoy finding old maps with her highlighting on them).
We went to Florida one winter and when the next winter came, I assumed we'd go again as we had really enjoyed it. But she's a been-there-done-that sort and has her own winter projects. So I was on my own. That's when I decided I needed a GPS for turn-by-turn navigation. It's easy enough for me to get to Florida-- it's pretty much just an 850-mile drive down the interstate. But once I'm there I put on another three to four thousand miles driving all over the state for a month or so before I head home. My GPS is invaluable for the ad-hoc nature of that. I don't know where I'm going to be from day to day (sometimes from hour to hour) so when I decide I want to go to a specific place, Michelle helps me out. (The name of the voice I use on my GPS is "American English - Michelle").
I also sometimes like to use Apple Maps turn-by-turn directions on the iPad mini4 I have mounted beside the steering wheel. I call that one Chatty Cathy as her directions are more verbose than Michelle's. I tend to use that one if I have traffic concerns. During rush hour in Orlando one day last March, I had both Michelle and Cathy going and Apple's routing was taking traffic into account but Garmin's was taking me into the big jam-up I could see ahead on Apple Maps. (My Garmin Montana doesn't do traffic)
I also use the iPad with Earthmate, Allstays, GaiaGPS, and MapMe maps when I'm driving in more remote areas but those aren't auto-routing (turn-by-turn) maps so I'm not sure they'd be part of the discussion.
I've also noticed that my trust in finding my way with GPS isn't shared. When we were about to be kicked out of our Outer Banks rental last September because of an approaching hurricane, I figured we'd take the lower bridge off the Outer Banks and let the GPS route us to our destination. But my wife and her brothers stayed up late figuring out each turn and the distance between turns for the whole route.
Also--- I'm not sure I agree with the article's premise. Do we really do that much driving to new places? Don't most of us spend the greater part of our lives driving familiar routes and only occasionally need to turn to a map or GPS? Even if we take long trips, it still doesn't add up to all that much does it?
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