I am trying to think of a word…….

[billinohio]

That describes the drivers in Washington DC.
DiyDave, help me out here!
It very likely will be a very vile word…….
we made a quick trip to DC for grandsons first birthday.
The GPS navigation really helped our vocabulary lesson, too. It routed us differently on every trip from the hotel to his condo. You really don’t get to know your way around. Especially when the GPS gets right turn and left turn mixed up (at least once per trip!)
I kinda figure the GPS is causing much of the idiotic traffic maneuvers!
But the layout, streets in all directions, one way, many dead ends, and idiots.
The best idiots have “diplomat” liscense plates

And the trip home…………I have never found an adequate map of West Virginia. I crossed on mostly state roads…..my wife may speak nice to me in a few days…..ya think?

[Erstwhile]

I am reasonably sure I have, over time, been lost in every major city in the US except Anchorage, but if I ever get to Alaska I will likely fill that void. 

[diydave]

Mar 11, 2024 19:50:40 GMT -6 billinohio said:

That describes the drivers in Washington DC.
DiyDave, help me out here!
It very likely will be a very vile word…….
we made a quick trip to DC for grandsons first birthday.
The GPS navigation really helped our vocabulary lesson, too. It routed us differently on every trip from the hotel to his condo. You really don’t get to know your way around. Especially when the GPS gets right turn and left turn mixed up (at least once per trip!)
I kinda figure the GPS is causing much of the idiotic traffic maneuvers!
But the layout, streets in all directions, one way, many dead ends, and idiots.
The best idiots have “diplomat” liscense plates

And the trip home…………I have never found an adequate map of West Virginia. I crossed on mostly state roads…..my wife may speak nice to me in a few days…..ya think?

I have always been fully satisfied with assholes as the word, but occasionally add an ethnic adjective or 3 whilst in mid rant...

[olfolks]

Here Bloomington is the worse as it is the home of Indiana University and is full of one way streets and one dot no feather Indians and Asian drivers, all of whom have no business on a bicycle much less a motor vehicle. Indianapolis is closing the gap fast tho with drivers from south of Texas with no drivers license

[billinohio]

You could definitely use a long list of ethnic adjectives

Everyone is just about totally dependent on the satellite navigation. If the satellite goes poof, it will resort in absolute gridlock. Even if you know how to proceed, there will be countless assholes in the road.

I have always preferred to have a map to preview the trip, analyse my options, and try to be prepared.
I like to go over the journey from A to Z.
The GPS only gives me A to B, then B to C, and if there is an interstate highway even slightly going the right direction, that’s top choice. But, if you ignore it’s directions, it is liable to take you on a cow path to get back to that interstate.
My road atlas has a 2 page map of the DC area and it is so totally worthless . Probably better off with nothing!
The West Virginia map is asinine, and having the spiral connector right where you are zig zagging through is just the icing on the cake!

[billinohio]

I did try to preview a route on the computer. Instead of using state route numbers, in the tight maneuvers it resorts to street names…..absolutely impossible to even have a clue where you are going. In the actual driving situation it might be understandable, if you can find the damned signs without causing a collision…….

[rustyfarmall]

Mar 12, 2024 6:32:32 GMT -6 billinohio said:

You could definitely use a long list of ethnic adjectives

Everyone is just about totally dependent on the satellite navigation. If the satellite goes poof, it will resort in absolute gridlock. Even if you know how to proceed, there will be countless assholes in the road.

I have always preferred to have a map to preview the trip, analyse my options, and try to be prepared.
I like to go over the journey from A to Z.
The GPS only gives me A to B, then B to C, and if there is an interstate highway even slightly going the right direction, that’s top choice. But, if you ignore it’s directions, it is liable to take you on a cow path to get back to that interstate.
My road atlas has a 2 page map of the DC area and it is so totally worthless . Probably better off with nothing!
The West Virginia map is asinine, and having the spiral connector right where you are zig zagging through is just the icing on the cake!

I know what you mean. We live in southwest, Iowa. My son lives over by Iowa City, nearly on the other end of the state from here. I have never used any interstate highway to get there because that would be the LONG way around, but when I was using my Tom-Tom GPS thing, It was constantly telling to me turn around and go back to interstate 80. We finally turned it off.

[billinohio]

We argue with the lady in the box. She must be deaf, though.

Route 33 goes straight through West Virginia. Not real straight, but it goes through! The GPS will take you on a zig zag of interstates to get across. (But, it may be faster, at that!)

We just almost completely avoided any traffic going through most of West By God Virginia on the old roads. They would be great roads for a motorcycle trip!
West Va has got a lot of sections of really good 4 lane roads, in places, at least. It is a challenging place to build them.
We got into 26 degrees and 3 or 4 inches of snow at the elevations, 57 when we got to the Ohio river at Point Pleasant. I wanted to go to the “Moth man museum” I did not get that wish, either.

Look up the moth man, surely all those people weren’t smoking the same things!

[bgoathill]

Stupid lop eared bastards has been my go-to insult as of late. 

[billinohio]

You are much too polite!

[504]

I use the gps that came on the phone,she gets really mad when I know the road better than she does!

[Erstwhile]

We still stick with the old Garmin from several years back.  SHE has learned how to update it, and does so occasionally; updates are still free.  The gizmo that came in the Taurus is too far outta date to be trustworthy, and Ford wants 2 or 3 hundred to load each new addition.  The phone stuff doesn't seem to talk Arkie, and is thereby not a player.  Nevertheless, I get honked at a lot. 

[billinohio]

We used to laugh at my brother in law, obediently following his GPS around in circles.
He had a lot of time share rooms that he had got suckered into, and we helped him use it up a few times. We would pick out a place for breakfast and he would take off and we would sneak through a short cut and beat him there.

The dang things have tried to send us over dead end roads, bridges that had been out for years, and oddly enough a few cow paths

You do have to be careful how you set it up. We were going through West Virginia on the interstate and it kept taking us off at the inside turns and then putting you right back on, on the entrance ramps. I guess it was saving you a few feet of driving distance.
Another time, we were coming home from North Carolina and it was insisting we take the scenic route in the wrong direction entirely, a couple hundred miles worth of it.

But, driving in DC is a whole different game. Every road twists and turns and you just totally lose your bearings. I would bet the most of the natives rely on them, too, if they get out of their neighborhood.

[Erstwhile]

" " ... twists and turns and you just totally lose your bearings. " "   So do the politicians. 

[billinohio]

I know this car has a compass display in it, but, it goes away when using this GPS, and the map showing your position and intended route is always going “north” on the screen. It can be changed but the wife seems to like it this way. She can’t read a real map, either.