Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
Fun fact: Automobiles and roads have existed for much longer than GPS navigation. Maps were very common and not “massive”.
If you were taking a road trip, you might bring a larger map (known as an “atlas”), but those were more like books (vs. local maps, which were just a folded piece of paper).
Neither were massive. Local/regional maps fit easily in pretty much any compartment or pocket in the car. Atlases wouldn’t fit in quite as many places, but they were still manageable.
I know what an Atlas is (british schools are behind enough that they still use them) but the same principle applies that it might not be the best idea to unfold and read a whole in the middle of rush hour traffic
Rush hour traffic is usually going slow enough that you probably could. But in fast traffic, yeah, that’s why you don’t do that, you fold it down to the part you need.
Fun fact: Automobiles and roads have existed for much longer than GPS navigation. Maps were very common and not “massive”.
If you were taking a road trip, you might bring a larger map (known as an “atlas”), but those were more like books (vs. local maps, which were just a folded piece of paper).
Neither were massive. Local/regional maps fit easily in pretty much any compartment or pocket in the car. Atlases wouldn’t fit in quite as many places, but they were still manageable.
I know what an Atlas is (british schools are behind enough that they still use them) but the same principle applies that it might not be the best idea to unfold and read a whole in the middle of rush hour traffic
Rush hour traffic is usually going slow enough that you probably could. But in fast traffic, yeah, that’s why you don’t do that, you fold it down to the part you need.