> and did you drop your compass under the seat?
You can get battery powered compasses that you stick on your dash. :)
My car's review mirror has a compass in it and I use it for navigation quite often.
Places I had to drive to before GPS are places I have a better understanding of how to get to. I have a friend who refuses to use GPS and his knowledge of the city is far far ahead of mine.
Of course I am lucky to live in a place built on a true x-y coordinate grid system where given any address you can navigate to it w/o issue using, well, just a compass. :)
I wouldn't try that trick in London! :) (There is a cool documentary about London cab drivers and what they have/had to go through to memorize the entire city)
Re:Life before smartphones (2020)
by cwyptocuwency on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:15PM
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Is it not "rear view" mirror, not "review" mirror? Or is that some regional term?
Wikipedia says.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror
Also google corrects car review mirror to rear view. :)
Yes, you can use a paper atlas. I have an 8-year-old car with GPS, and a 34-year-old car without. I bought a map book for the 34-year-old car, thinking it'd be a "period accurate" way of driving it; it's anachronistic at best, and frustrating at worst - can you read the street signs, and did you drop your compass under the seat? In the 8-year-old car, I can hit a button, say "Navigate to (an address)" _while driving_, and it figures it out.
Some of these I do on principle (only pay with cash, avoid loyalty cards, etc.), and I accept a compromised UX as a result. Your mileage may vary, depending on how much you get out of these things, but the immediate impact of them seem generally negative.