Little Old Lady from Pasadena, move over!

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16. I don't have one either. But if I had one, I'd still check a map for a long trip.

Blindly believing mapquest fifteen years ago cost me a half hour of wandering blindly on a very short jaunt to the next town over, so I've been skeptical ever since

And about ten years ago, I set out for a professional meeting. I had alternate sets of directions, all of which I had compared, before following any, so I was unlikely to go too far afield. But my first set of instructions from one of the online "Get directions" sources dumped me in a shopping center parking lot, rather before I got to my destination. Fortunately, it was only a short distance from a road I needed to follow in another set of directions, so it didn't cost me much time

And there are plenty of horror stories

A couple of years back, some folk got stuck in Death Valley after driving in for the day without notifying Park authorities, without adequate water, and without any clear idea of destination: they just planned to follow their GPS instructions, which stranded them into a washed-out road. They then used up most of their water keeping their little dog hydrated. One of the people IIRC

"I'll just follow my GPS!" ranks up there with "Hold my beer and watch this!"