Random thoughts

[Blitty]

So you just use it for GPS?

How is it better than google maps?

 

[FairWarning]

Waze is a poor substitute for Trapster. To be fair, Waze wasn't meant to replace Trapster.

 

[Matty]

Waze is for avoiding traffic, not really cops. It reroutes you automatically based on live traffic data from other Wazers. That's its killer feature, if you need it. I do.

It's not all that useful if you drive outside large, congested cities.

Google Maps is fine, but it doesn't reroute you in real time, you need to recompute the route as you go.

 

[bacon]

Gay people make out with members of their own gender, it's true

 

[bacon]

Garmin is the win for navigation.

Garmin for Gays. If someone made GPS's that were only aimed at well to do gays with a professional gay voice I think it would sell like buttcakes.

Why did it bring us to the proctologist AGAIN?!

 

[Matty]

Smartphones killed the need for a standalone GPS.

 

[bacon]

and the need for

YOUR FACE

 

[Mudcat]

I still don't have a smartphone

 

[Matty]

They're pretty expensive things in Canadaland. Glad I have one provided by work.

 

[Mudcat]

I was away from home and a little fuzzy on directions the other day so I asked a random guy, hey, do you know the roads around these parts?

He did not - but out came the smartphone and bada bing, bada boom ---> my route was getting planned.

Meanwhile another guy overheard and his smartphone came out too and he was making supplemental comments.

Got exactly the information I needed and had a smooth, efficient trip. Thank you for the app help, gentlemen.


Who's smart now?????

 

[MrMonkey]

Smartphones kill!

PHILADELPHIA May 9, 2015, 2:15 PM ET

Surveillance video could help confirm witness accounts of an amphibious tourist boat crash that killed a woman on a downtown Philadelphia street at the height of rush hour, authorities said Saturday.

Witnesses reported that "the victim was walking while looking at an electronic device and proceeded to cross the street against the red light" when she was hit by the Ride The Ducks boat in Friday evening in Chinatown, a police spokeswoman said.

Elizabeth Karnicki, 68, of Beaumont, Texas, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Chief Inspector Scott Small told reporters that the woman's husband had been walking several feet ahead of her.

"The husband heard her scream, turned around, and saw that his wife had been struck," Small told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

He said passengers and eyewitnesses on the street had been interviewed, and footage from multiple surveillance cameras will be reviewed, but it appears to be "a tragic accident." No charges have been filed.

Investigators hadn't yet received video that captures the accident, the police spokeswoman said Saturday.

The duck boats are a popular way for tourists to see the sights of Philadelphia from both land and water.

 

[roguejuror]

mister monkey how is chinatown in philly?

 

[MrMonkey]

mister monkey how is chinatown in philly?

Dunno personally but heard it is good and safe area considering being in Philly! You know I don't get out much so can't comment more! Big cities and MrM don't mix well!

 

[Tron]

Waze

Outstanding app.


Tron Confirmed.

 

[Valorem]

I do smell like nachos

 

[roguejuror]

Waze is for avoiding traffic, not really cops. It reroutes you automatically based on live traffic data from other Wazers. That's its killer feature, if you need it. I do.

So you don't input anything? You just let it track you and it's algorithm figures if there are delays?

 

[Mudcat]

I wonder why there is a word foodstuffs.

I have never heard it used where it didn't just mean food.

So just say food.

You maniac.

 

[Matty]

So you don't input anything? You just let it track you and it's algorithm figures if there are delays?

Yeah, that is the whole concept behind it. Community-based GPS. It's extremely well done.