alt Hacker NewsYeah I've felt that gut punch all the time. Seems to happen with every technology. In the early days of GPS, people would ask for directions to the gas station then pull it up on their phone map and go "yeah, you're right!" So thanks for wasting my time, insulting my integrity, and killing my faith in humanity all in 3 words. And if you really need two opinions, it's so easy to just reverse the situation, "my GPS says there's an Exxon in two miles if I turn left here and then right, is that correct?"
I remember fifteen years ago I would tell people leaving my house "oh yeah, ignore your GPS that tells you to go that way, just down the road here and left turn; that'll get you on the highway much faster."
Nowadays obviously Google Maps gets it right, but it was interesting that period where you had to actively preempt everyone's instinct to just rely on the little table hanging off their dashboard.