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I believe they are confirming they haven't seen a paper map nor know how to use one. lol
Nor have a phone with gps or any other outside devices
wouldn’t a phone with a gps have the same privacy concerns, just pocket sized
GPS doesn't phone home by itself. The OP article also explaines that they only removed the GPS because of buggy behaviour in combination with using a phone GPS.
Easier to turn a phone off whole your car moves or wrap it in foil it takes wa6 less foil
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yes lets carry around a massive paper map with us in the middle of traffic
Back in my day, we did a little thing called "pulling over to the side of the road or into a parking lot before pulling out the map". You don't read the map in the middle of traffic, silly!
Is that really any worse than drivers now
No, but it's worse than it could be. Drivers browsing facebook while they drive isn't relevant to the GPS vs map comparison.
Oh you can use Facebook on a map
It was a joke.
Anyway, downloading offline maps using any number of apps is an option as is installing a dedicated GPS unit in the car.
Fun fact: Automobiles and roads have existed for much longer than GPS navigation. Maps were very common and not "massive".
If you were taking a road trip, you might bring a larger map (known as an "atlas"), but those were more like books (vs. local maps, which were just a folded piece of paper).
Neither were massive. Local/regional maps fit easily in pretty much any compartment or pocket in the car. Atlases wouldn't fit in quite as many places, but they were still manageable.
I know what an Atlas is (british schools are behind enough that they still use them) but the same principle applies that it might not be the best idea to unfold and read a whole in the middle of rush hour traffic
Rush hour traffic is usually going slow enough that you probably could. But in fast traffic, yeah, that's why you don't do that, you fold it down to the part you need.
That is quite literally how it was done before GPS navigation took hold. The passenger handled the map.