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Thursday, September 24, 2009

A Car GPS Is Great, But The Surveys Are Provoking

By Roger Calfsman

This writer once lived in the woods in Britain for over 3 years. Although I continue to listen to the radio from time to time, I tended to ignore the massive changes going on in real life. I first heard the alphabet soup term "GPS" while I was still living in America, but always in the field of an army or big law enforcement or rescue agency. If I heard about a automotive GPS in a radio adverts, I never knew what they were talking about, and didn't care to find out.

Welcome (Back) To America

Moving back to America, I was in for a grim culture shock. I avoided watching television so long as I could, but my mom ( who took her wayward kid in ) loved it, so the TV was on all the time. I might practically pound my head against the floor simply because I couldn't understand the commercials. My mother had to give me an explanation what "bling" meant. That was a tad bit humbling.

At the time, I took PC lessons and attempted to get my head together. I definitely required a auto GPS to figure out what I was doing. As a lark, I joined several online survey groups. I started getting free samples, and learned what an automotive GPS was. I didn't have much of a choice I was getting two or three automobile GPS surveys a week.

Back In The Saddle Again

I realized that instead of being annoyed by geeky jargon, automotive GPS dashboard mounted devices were helpful and simply comprehensible gizmos that could help improve the quality of life. Imagine if the kids of Israel had car GPS units strapped to their donkeys and camels.

They would not have wandered around in the desert for forty years. They would've found the best route to The promised Land before dinner.

Folks of my generation and younger get so easily lost because it is too perilous to go anywhere. Whenever we plan a trip, we have to allow at least 3 hours to get lost and then find our way again. Think about the waste of gas.

But with a car GPS unit, you do not have to waste gas or time to get to your destination. I wonder how much gas is saved simply by using auto GPS units.

If I go back to the woods, I suspect I'll take a car GPS device with me. Maybe then I could make better choices about my life.

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