I honestly can’t remember the last time anyone’s asked me for directions. It really is awesome that every phone now comes with decent navigation as standard.
Heck, it’s much, much better than most standalone systems ever were. You now get free traffic advisory on your phone, which used to be an expensive paid feature on devices like TomTom.
I do shudder to think what’ll happen if GPS ever goes down or gets downgraded to unusable. Most people have lost their non-technology navigation skills, assuming they ever had them.
I have a friend who loves giving directions. I have begged her just to send me an address.
That’s my wife for craigslist item pickups; she’s giving them streets to turn on and where to park. And then frustrated when they call and are late and lost. Just give them the address, and let google do it
assuming they ever had them.
This is me this is me!
I think I was born at the correct time for this…
Before printed directions, I had a Mapsco book https://www.ebay.com/itm/266324662580 of Dallas and surrounding.
About half the size of a phone book, had to frantically study the map at stop lights, but damn near impossible to get lost if you had one.
Wouldn’t call it nostalgia, like missing 56k modems, a “hostage to low tech”.
Having asked for directions in the UK in the early 90s: Drive down yer a bit, turn right at the stone and hammer inn, then a left at the second roundabout, drive till you cross the cow tressle, then take the third laneway on the right…etc. Like they really have a skill remembering lengthy directions.
People used to remember phone numbers as well. Now you’d only really know your own and maybe some important ones like yer ma’s
