ON THE CUTTING EDGE: GPS Not A Guy Thing
Men love gadgets. Men hate asking for directions. So what happens when a gadget – in this case, a satellite navigation system – gives directions to a man? A survey of 3,000 drivers by British insurance company Swinton finds that “[w]hile 83 percent of male drivers regularly rebel against their sat navs, less than three-quarters of women disobey the devices,” reports Reuters:
"A sat nav should aid your own navigational abilities rather than replace them," said Steve Chelton, Insurance Development Manager at Swinton, which found drivers were often right to mistrust the global positioning systems.
Over one third of drivers said their navigation system had led them between one and five miles astray, while more than half said directions provided by global positioning systems had triggered an argument with a passenger.
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