Technology is wonderful

shafke

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Traveling to Lorton to catch the auto train this morning. Heading down I95 in Delaware the overhead sign indicated I95 closed at exit 1. Luckily this is just before the rest area. We pulled off, cranked up google maps and mapped an alternate route. We ended up going back north one exit and taking some back road through to the first exit in Maryland .
It seems there was a fatal accident and when they said the road was closed what they meant was that all traffic was being kicked off the road a exit 1. From the rest area to the exit would have taken about 1 1/2 hours on I95. Out little detour only cost us about 20 minutes.
 
Yes it is wonderful.. just don't totally depend on it.
My mom got lost down in Miami a month ago in a not so nice neighborhood thanks to her GPS being out because of bad storms. Good thing she had a daughter who was close to a computer to call and help her out.

We also got lost in Pensacola in a Hertz car using their GPS.. good thing we mapquested before we left.

Always have a backup hard copy map.

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Supposedly they are expecting about 270 check ins today and as of 1:30 they are only at about 70. I wonder how many people got stuck in the backup heading for the train.
 
Our GPS helped us out on many occasions but it started acting up and sending us in totally wrong directions the last few uses. Now that we have iPhones, we probably will never use our regular GPS again. I agree, modern technology is great...most of the time!

I ate at Panera Bread yesterday with my niece and they delivered our food to us using a GPS unit. Pretty cool!
 






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