Are more people getting lost?

I have recently noticed that more and more people are driving with GPS devices in their cars. This was noticed not on an average week day but a Sunday, a day people go to shops or church or friends, depending on your choice of “religion”. So why do people need GPS navigation on a Sunday?

I can understand the functionality of this product for a sales guy, or a delivery fan or if you are in a big city or country for the first time, but Sunday morning outings? Is it that people have become bored to such an extend that they need some sort of distraction in the form of global positioning to make their drive more interesting? Don’t we already have cell phones, car entertainment systems and the act of driving to keep us busy?

What about using this time to have a conversation with the people next to you or if you alone, give yourself some time to reflect and think as per my previous post? These devices take up a fair amount of space on the front window and limit the road view extensively. This coupled with other distracting devices like cell phones, must make using the road a lot more dangerous for everyone else.

But my main concern here is for the individual that need this device for their average daily use. Have these people stopped using their minds? Are they constantly lost? As one manufacturer says; “You are lost without it”…come on, you might loose your mind without it because you might stop thinking! I’ve seen people becoming passengers in cars; they don’t focus on their directions and therefore get lost. These devices have the same effect.

Already stories of people turning into walls and drive into rivers or dead end streets, following the prompts of the GPS navigator as if they are driven like robots. People don’t consciously think anymore. They just listen to another “authority” to obediently follow and observe just like a machine. But maybe we are taught this way? I see many lost people in this world.