Georgia's new Speed limit laws

Had a Nuvi 350 I got at Best Buy like 8 yrs ago. Used it to find address all over Houston, Baytown, Beaumont, galveston, Lake Jackson, Richmond, Rosenburg, Katy, cypress, Magnolia, conroe, Huntsville, College Station, Hempstead. Brenham, plantersville.
Doing jobs for Walreens, Pizza Hut and Darque Tan and other business that I was a Vendor for.
Plus I did residental work in some of these places.

You are wastin yer time trying to read a map to git in and out of places , when you can plug in a address and a Gps will take you there.
Reading a map is more dangerous too.

And when yer ready to leave you tell it to go home and it will take you out.

You can fight using a Gps yer whole life, but its a tool that you can use to help you in life.
All you got to do is sit there and listen for the lady to tell you what to do and follow the route on the screen.

My wife fought it for years till a year ago. I spent a few hours on a sunday and showed her how to use the Nuvi 350.
She will not give it back.
Guess I will have to just use my Zumo 550.

Yep !

You can look at the places you have been.
Like when we went to the hill country. I could of saved it on my GPS and went back.
I just don't have the voice in my zumo 550 to hear what the lady is saying.
That's why i need the blue tooth helmet set so I can hear her talk to me.

You need to usea little common sense when using a GPS.
And in the setup it has the fastest way or the shortest way.

On the shortest way, you better pay attention.
You might go down some alleys and places to make it shorter.
You need to learn the unit you git. And don't git upset cause you bought a cheap one.


But I use a good Garmin. I don't like the cheaper units anybody including the ones garmin sells.

And the GPS relies on the Satellites. If the goverment has them set to be off the GPS will be off some, Plus or minus.

but all in all if you pay attention they will take you to where you want to go.
I know you can and need to buy map updates just like you buy a map of cities every couple years.
Walley World has a 1 time map update for the garmin for 60.00 or a lifttime map update for 120.00

But all GPS units don't have this function.

The zumo 550 does.
You can talk to garmin and they will tell you which units does and don't.

You ride the way you want to ride and I ride the way I want to ride. Its not a matter of knowing where you are at its more knowing of what else is out there and what I might of missed. There was i day I would of said the same thing about a full dress bike. Who needs a windshield, luggage , stereo, communication, adjustable shocks, back rest, etc but as I get older I would like one.

Go back to driving again.

The Cities has gotten farther again. More people to wade threw. More lanes on the interstate. More exit ramps . More roads that go no where.
More poople to Rob you. More gang activity.
There's some parts of towns you don't even need to go to nowdays.
Been driving as a serviceman for 40 yrs. It has changed and has gotten a lot harder.
Look how much farther people and business has moved out of towns.
Been out Katy, Tx. trying to git around off the interstate.
Too many street names to remember to try to turn on.
I go into all the truck stops up here gittin gas and coffee.
hear the drivers askin how do you git around this loop to this part of town .
They git in traffic and git turned around .
Yer just old and don't like change.
Go back to driving with a map and let somebody hand you a GPS and make you use it for a couple months.
Yer attitude will change promise.

GPS's, cell phones, a cup of coffee, a radio...they're all nice but have one attribute in common. They all are distractions - or help us in our travel. It depends on how we use them. We have the authority as well as the responsibility to use them wisely. Personally I still like to take the road map and familiarize myself with the route before leaving on the trip and even write down the route if needed. We used a GPS once on a trip and it was showing us a "short cut" which took us right into a bank parking lot. It was so convinced that it was correct that it didn't even start saying "recalibrate".

I’ve missed a few turns every now and then, just adds to the adventure, never thought I was lost. Missed a turn on our way to Big Springs last May ended up out in the oil fields but I knew I was still in Texas. Finally flagged down some old guy in a pickup and he told me how to get to where I wanted to go. I wouldn’t have minded have a GPS that day, all those oil fields look the same. Especially as the sun is going down on a drizzly afternoon.

That is sort of like saying "I went to the bar the other night and drove home drunk and didn't kill anyone, so drunk driving should be legal"

I would not disagree that cell phones are very useful tools in the business world, just not while driving. My brother in law drove tractor trailer, had safe driving awards, and all that, until the one time he answered his cell phone, and in that moment of distraction, his trailer wheels left the pavement into the soft shoulder and he lost control. He was killed when the tractor rolled over. How many others have lost lives due to distracted drivers (cell phones, eating, fumbling with CD's, etc.) I know I have had to take defensive maneuvers on several occasions because somebody was doing something other than driving while driving.

If you do something stupid and kill yourself, that is too bad. If you do something stupid and kill another, it is murder.