Comment Re:Navigation isn't a luxury (Score 1) 938
"Navigation isn't a luxury"? You're right. So you're just going to have to learn to navigate. Sit down before you leave home, figure out the best route, then follow it.
I learned to drive in Boston. I spent 15 years driving there before I moved. I continue to drive there when I go back to visit friends. I don't have any device that will give me "real time navigation info", and I don't see a need for it. I do now have a GPS system -- I got it a year or so ago -- and it's nice to have if I need to get somewhere unexpectedly, but mostly I just figure out where I'm going ahead of time. It's not hard. If roads are closed, you find your way around. Maybe you pull into a parking lot and look at your map. Maybe you just take a bunch of turns that look like they should work... sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
For a technology that only really came on the scene a few years ago (for live traffic updates, longer for GPS), people have sure gotten to feel entitled about it.