Post #2603069
2026-05-16 10:56 UTC
Replies (5)
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@youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2026-05-16 11:31
Is that really any worse than drivers now
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@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-16 13:46
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.
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@AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 2026-05-16 14:24
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!
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@percent@infosec.pub 2026-05-16 18:37
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.
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@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-18 21:22
That is quite literally how it was done before GPS navigation took hold.