Maybe my NAV knows more than I thought.

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  1. ChargerGirl

    ChargerGirl Mama / DB Geek / Driver

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    On the way to Marc's grandmother's 90th birthday banquet in the Outer Sunset neighborhood yesterday evening, I thought my NAV was on crack when it kept telling me to go the opposite direction from what Google Maps said on Marc's iPhone. For example, take 101 S instead of in the direction of Golden Gate bridge. Well, after getting stuck in stand-still traffic for twenty minutes while Critical Mass (including THREE NAKED MIDDLE-AGED WHITE MEN on BICYCLES :cry:) rolled by, I think maybe the NAV was onto something. :doh:

    Note to self, last Friday of the month, allow an extra two hours if I HAVE to go into the City.
     
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  2. DRKNE55

    DRKNE55 The Badguy

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    iphones are retarded. you need to go on 101 south through the city for a bit to end up in outer sunset.

    the golden gate doesnt do you much good unless youre going to sausalito.
     
  3. ChargerGirl

    ChargerGirl Mama / DB Geek / Driver

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    Yeah, it was like we were headed to UCSF hospital, but then this ugly zigzaging around that hill and thru a park and then tada, two blocks from the restaurant. Oh and the food... almost all seafood and I woke up with an MSG hangover. At least I could chalk it up to being the white girl.
     
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    DRKNE55 The Badguy

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    yeah i usually take the end around route even though as the crow flies its faster to get there going through the city. i drive up to richmond and then go over their knox bridge and into golden gate park from sausalito. its all highway, no city traffic.
     
  5. durangatang

    durangatang asphaultmeltingeuphoria

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    I've ran into routes like that too, Makes me wonder who maps the route.
     
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    ChargerGirl Mama / DB Geek / Driver

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    Well, for navigating Berkeley, the NAV prefers to take the long roundabout route, instead of shaving a couple of minutes and going a more direct route. Probably a route option setting I have.

    I just thought it was funny that I was "whatever!" to the NAV going into the City, then we get stuck and have to sit thru naked and hooting and hollering bicyclist activists and Marc and I both look at each other and agree that maybe the NAV had it right. :doh:
     
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    Dookie Foe twenny sics

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    Entertainment has it's price.
     
  8. ChargerGirl

    ChargerGirl Mama / DB Geek / Driver

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    Maybe there's a hidden "unwanted nudity" setting. But if there were I'm guessing one of y'all would've discoveredi it already. :)
     
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    NOTPAID4 Platinum Supporting Member

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    LOL ~ I've never used my navagation in my SRT.... forget I have the darn thing! I just gotta drive it more.... maybe I'll remember to set it up when I head to the SHINDIG in Georgia this Friday!!! ???
     
  10. ChargerGirl

    ChargerGirl Mama / DB Geek / Driver

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    Well, you can't mess with while you're moving, that's the big thing and mind the joystick. Mine fell off after 50k miles.
     
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    NOTPAID4 Platinum Supporting Member

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    My wife Tee played with ours today but for some reason couldn't get it set up right. I haven't tried YET, myself ~ spent all day mowing the yard and getting the car ready for the Georgia Shindig!