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A concept that is now being discussed in other places. Forget the historical perspectives. It is now time to revisit this idea in more detail. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCp-JSVS ... e=youtu.be

That's funny. Thanks Tom.

does it requires training?

Awesome technology, cool post, thanks Tom :-).

they are planning on rolling out the webinars sometime around the 12th of never.

Has it's advantages,

they are free at the Auto Club.

I don't know - how is the tech support and the learning curve? I don't want to spend months trying to learn how to use this thing. Also, what happens if it freezes up on you and your out in the field, then what????

Back to the office?

What? A color screen you can actually read outside? Who would've thunk it?

All controller developers should have to use their device outside in bright sunshine when it is 105 with R. Lee Ermy yelling at them all day, just my humble opinion, of course.

My son and I represented classic generational differences on a recent road trip. I of course had my "MAP", and he had his smart phone out giving me blow by blow directions to his girlfriends house as we approached San Jose on 101 North. I told him, just give me the next 4 or 5 turns, I can visualize them and remember them. But he was following the screen and suggested offramps, intersections, etc. one at a time, which seemed to keep updating and changing based on who knows what (current traffic loads?).

I like to use Google maps before a road trip if I'm going somewhere new, but my old-school brain still does best knowing the route in advance and unfolding my big old map as needed. While my son is of course giggling under his breath (or laughing in my face) wondering when the heck Dad is going to join the 21st century... I'm an embarassment.

Dave you are not alone. My wife prints out turn by turn directions and I say I need to see it on the map because there might be a better way or what if we miss a turn? With the map I was able to get unlost. Turn by turns are useless when you get off of them and that little smartphone screen is a bad way to look at a map.

I am with both Dave's, in an informal study (my random observations) it seems that people are losing the ability to navigate by sense of direction, they do not seem to understand the locations of places relative to each other and my conclusion is due to the lack of use/understanding of a basic map.

I’m sure others have had similar experiences with maps on GPS devices. How many times have you followed the GPS turn by turn only to end up on a dead end street that isn’t anywhere near the location you were trying to get to because of similar street names? That happened in to me Oregon a few years back trying to find the in-laws new house. We ended up 10 miles from where we wanted to be. On the other hand my old school map brain is not infallible either. My wife accuses me of navigating by the brail method or taking the scenic route. I bump along until I get there and exclaim “‘eureka!”, eventually.