Who Needs An Automotive GPS?
A better question would be: who doesn’t? It’s a total no-brainer if you travel by car a lot. But GPS even comes in handy if you just drive around town. Like most guys, I hate to ask for directions (hey, they are generally useless anyway), and with a GPS I don’t have to. Remember those old American Express commercials where they said, “Don’t leave home without it?” I feel the exact same way about GPS. I have one in each of my cars and I have another, small one I picked up at an online GPS store a few months ago that I take with me when I travel. The latest units take hardly any space at all, and they really come in handy when you’re in a strange place and don’t know your way around. Truth be told, I used to be a GPS skeptic. Early units were often so complicated that you needed a degree in computer science to use them, and the mapping software was almost impossible to figure out. I thought GPS was okay – for those who already knew where they were going in the first place. And those peop
