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Just don't use navigation guy, memorize the paper map! /s

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Or, you know, stop to re-adjust your course without endangering everyone sharing the road with you.

Your sarcasm looks a lot less smart once you examine the actual options.

Pull over to adjust the map. Does anyone really believe that adjusting GPS while in a moving vehicle is safe?

This gave me pause for thought. It really toes the line of socially acceptable behaviour for a driver, as evidenced by how common it is to do so. How many times have you been a passenger in a car and the driver has pulled over to adjust GPS?

I don't think I have particularly dangerous friends and family, but they rarely do.

> How many times have you been a passenger in a car and the driver has pulled over to adjust GPS?

When I'm in the front passenger seat, dealing with the GPS and the A/C becomes my responsibility.

I’ve never been in a moving car where the driver did anything with the gps more than listening or asking a passenger to adjust it.

Set your destination before you set off? Or if you really need to do it after that point just pull over to the side of the road for a minute.

If that's what it takes, then so be it. The yearly road toll is embarassing. It wouldn't bother me one bit if all device input turned off as soon as the car started moving. Passengers can play Eye Spy to pass the time.

Ok Google directions home.

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