When I was young (that was a long time ago), you navigated with paper maps or by memory. If you were a member of an Automobile Association, and planned far enough ahead, then you might be able to get a "turn-by-turn" map made for you.
Then mapping tools, both online and available for purchase for your computer, became available. With this advancement, you could pre-plan your trip and print out your route ahead of time. Of course, if you needed to go off-route, you still needed to have and know how to use a traditional paper map.
Then GPS came along. This has been a godsend for folks like me. While you still pre-plan, that actual navigation is *generally* pretty straightforward. Except when you run into situations like this:
These "flyovers" apparently efficiently move traffic. But the entries to the various ramps are not intuitive and confuse the h__l out of GPS units. Over the weekend, I went the wrong direction twice, and ended up stopped in a highway Y trying to figure out how to blend back into traffic.
Give me a lonely back road to this carp any day.............
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