Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!

[not2old]

Some of this is a hard aversion to technology... OK, being able to read a map is good, but GPS phone maps show construction, back ups, faster routes, speed traps, DUI check points, school zones, ect, and are updated often.

My biggest problem with all this technology is that after I take a ridicules amount of time to learn how to do something, the next time I go to use it, they have changed it. My two I phones both refuse to communicate with the internet and I refuse to pay someone to show me how to fix it. Our kids live too far away, we only see them once a year and I forgot to ask as we have no cell ,service where we visit them.

 

[RB5]

Some of this is a hard aversion to technology... OK, being able to read a map is good, but GPS phone maps show construction, back ups, faster routes, speed traps, DUI check points, school zones, ect, and are updated often.

That is all great when it is accurate and the gps device is working. I've had numerous times someone came to our house looking for another address, but their gps led them down our 2000' driveway. Another time the sheriff came looking for a stolen 18 wheeler. Turns out the gps tracker said it was here, but it was actually 1/4 mile away across the street.

 

[paulsharvey]

So, I dont normally use GPS driving, unless im going somewhere weird. I know some that use it to go to work, the same place they have worked for 10 years, for speed traps, traffic, heck, ive seen some that alert you of debris in the road. I see its benefits, but dont generally bother. Now, I got to go through Atlanta, or something, yep. Another place i use it, to find an undeveloped property, with no landmarks. Gets you close, and better than driving 35mph, in a 60, trying to read mail boxes.

With that, its on my phone, no need for it to be integrated in the vehicle, IMO

 

[paulsharvey]

Not on topic, but, squirrel hunting, in some deep dark, stuff, walking miles, I will turn my Basemap track on. When you are two miles into the heavy woods, and not walking straight, no trails, although I Coukd find the truck eventually, id rather not make the two mile track back turn into 5, cause I got turned around

 

[jjeff]

Gps mapping will sometimes direct you down a named two track. As long as it's named ona map, gated or not gps figures its useable by a 2wd passenger car i guess.

 

[paulsharvey]

Gps mapping will sometimes direct you down a named two track. As long as it's named ona map, gated or not gps figures its useable by a 2wd passenger car i guess.

It will generally seek to keep you on primary road systems. At our old place, as the crow flies, it was maybe 3 miles to a specific road, but in real life, about 14 miles. Got to go west, then north, then east, vs straight NW. GPS used to try to send you to a gate on a 9000 acre university forestry property and then down their closed, internal maintenance roads. 10 years ago, pretty common, 5 years ago, not so much, now, pretty rare

Some systems, you can enter a load height, and it routes based on bridge limits,. Now, if im at 14'4" and GPS says the bridge is 14'8", doesn't mean i would blindly run that at 75 mph

 

[paulsharvey]

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[Oaktree]

I’d like to see the heated windshield make a come back.

Someone told me they were done away with because all the stone chipped ones were costing the insurance companies a fortune? Probly BS

Heated windshields? I vaguely remember one automaker (Ford?) offering something along that line decades ago as an option on some models but it didn't seem to be around very long.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not on topic, but, squirrel hunting, in some deep dark, stuff, walking miles, I will turn my Basemap track on. When you are two miles into the heavy woods, and not walking straight, no trails, although I Coukd find the truck eventually, id rather not make the two mile track back turn into 5, cause I got turned around

My first time working in New York I followed the forester into the woods, turning here there and everywhere. Back then there were no road layers but I ran the track on my Garmin to make a bread crumb trail to find my way back out. Otherwise I'd still be trying to find my way back out.

 

[Hay Dude]

Subaru had heated windshields.