Especially after the big dig
I was in Boston and northern Mass last week. A friend living there got a new car with one of them nav computers in it. Fancy stuff. It worked practically flawless everywhere except certain parts of Boston where streets and exits have changed or disappeared. On our way to No Name on the south side for dinner one night we couldn't take an exit that the navcomp wanted since it no longer existed. When we surfaced the car jumped from one road to the other running parallel to it. Quite funny. :-)
One thing neat is how after programming a route in, if you go off it, the computer would automatically readjust the route to get to your destination. Sometimes the route would get rather interesting depending on what weights you use for highways, tolls, roads, etc. I was anticipating the female computer voice to finally say "WHAT...THE...HELL...ARE...YOU...DOING?!?!" after it readjusted over 20 minutes of ignoring it. Heh.
When I buy my next car it's definitely going to have one of them things despite being able to read maps well and have a good sense of direction.
