[Mgs] GPS/Nav in a MG - blind and deaf

[Max Heim]

We don't need no stinkin' GPS!

Seriously, I don't know how you hear it without using a headphone. In my MG,
I can't hear my phone's obnoxious ringtone even when it's in my cargo
pocket. And the screen/sunlight issue seems hopeless.

In the old days we recruited winsome young things, and gave them the title
Navigator (whether they could read a map or not).

Personally, I don't understand the need for GPS. I have never seen one do
anything that 5 minutes of looking at a map before setting out wouldn't have
accomplished, and without the distraction of fiddling with a device while
driving, or taking one's eyes off the road.


--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 7/5/13 3:28 PM, Bob Donahue at bobmgtd at comcast.net wrote:

> I've been using an older model TomTom in my B and TD. With the top down on a
> sunny day on the highway, I can't hear the tiny built-in speaker nor see the
> washed-out screen. My solution was to plug an amplified speaker into the
> headphone output. This has worked out very well, I still can't see the screen,
> but I can hear the spoken directions. I would like to get a new GPS, but none
> of the new models has a headphone output. (OK, there are a couple of
> motorcycle models that still have a headphone output, but they are north of
> $800!)
> 
> I'm wondering what other MG'ers are doing for GPS - in the sun, on the
> highway, with the top down.
> 
> BTW, my hearing and sight are normal, I was just being glib in the subject
> line.
> 
> Bob Donahue (Still Stuck in the '50s)
> Email - bobmgtd at comcast.net
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