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1. Pilots and truck drivers rely on GPS everyday

Sun Aug 18, 2013, 07:10 PM

Aug 2013

Does it do something to their minds?

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Do our brains pay a price for GPS? [View all] alp227 Aug 2013 OP

Pilots and truck drivers rely on GPS everyday soryang Aug 2013 #1

My husband was a pilot. Jet fighter in the military. Rozlee Aug 2013 #8

. Mojorabbit Aug 2013 #14

Hang in there, he needs you now. bemildred Aug 2013 #19

The ability to dead-reckon navigate VFR is the sign of a good pilot Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #10

Use your head first enlightenment Aug 2013 #2

+1 mgc1961 Aug 2013 #7

As a counterexample... drm604 Aug 2013 #3

GPS is lousy at route finding around town. Out in the open, it's OK. bemildred Aug 2013 #4

Yup, GPS blows when trying to get around L.A. traffic. nt SunSeeker Aug 2013 #15

Ah, someone who knows. nt bemildred Aug 2013 #18

That part about mental maps being individual Curmudgeoness Aug 2013 #5

Same here. I have to be driving to remember Ilsa Aug 2013 #27

I learned to drive on the streets of Boston. Atman Aug 2013 #6

Some years back my husband got a GPS SheilaT Aug 2013 #9

It does tend to make one geographically duller witted Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #11

Before I learned to drive, I had very limited mental maps starroute Aug 2013 #12

They said the same thing when the printing press was invented. nt bananas Aug 2013 #13

Strawman argument n/t Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #17

GPS is part of our system now, gotta get used to it. ConcernedCanuk Aug 2013 #16

I lived in Atlanta when the Flames were there... JayhawkSD Aug 2013 #20

It can be incredibly useful; but, I don't use it every time LongTomH Aug 2013 #21

I've noticed the same thing with phone numbers jeffrey_pdx Aug 2013 #23

So true. Curmudgeoness Aug 2013 #30

Having fought a map in JoeyT Aug 2013 #24

Blame Boston, not your GPS Demeter Aug 2013 #25

I have done home nursing since the 90s. I know Chicago really well. mucifer Aug 2013 #26

for similar reasons, a long time ago, i stopped taking notes. unblock Aug 2013 #28

London cabbies have bigger brains mainer Aug 2013 #29