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   From: NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com   
      
   On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:55:37 -0700, Michelle Steiner   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <270220142116025545%star@sky.net>, Davoud    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >> I don't care if Satan supports it. You are unlikely to convince me that   
   >> it is safe to drive while attempting to read a complex map display.   
   >> That's why we have voice-enabled GPS in our cars. If the portable GPS   
   >> can give voice instructions without being seen or touched by the   
   >> driver, that's OK. Otherwise, ban 'em.   
   >   
   >How about a map printed on paper?   
      
   I drove from Baltimore to Dallas and back a few yeas ago.  I don't   
   remember trying to do this on the way there, but on the way back, I told   
   myself special circumstances existed (and they did) and tried a couple   
   times to read my paper map while driving. I didn't hit anything but it   
   was a big mistake.   
      
   I love maps, I can reproduce many from memory, to scale.   And sometimes   
   I can find my way even without a map, just by dead reckoning.   If I   
   know something is about 4 miles northwest, I'll head northwest, turning   
   left and right asa necessary, until I see the street or building.   
      
   I've only not known where I am about 10 times in my life, and only not   
   known which direction I was going about twice (in the fog south of   
   Boston one time and in Bethehem Pa. the other.)   
      
   But when I need a map, I retain what it said for a very short time.  5   
   minutes or even less.   It seems inconsistent with the rest of me.   But   
   that's why I wanted to look at the map.   
      
   Reading a map (which means you have to look at it) is far harder than   
   drinking something, or even adjusting the radio.   
      
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