We are NOT lost, said the man!
by Kat Maudru
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posted Oct 26 2011 7:33PM
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 A new study finds that – surprise! - men are far more likely to ignore directions given by their GPS systems than women. Talk about perpetuating the stereotype that men hate asking for directions. While 83 percent of male drivers regularly rebel against their sat navs, less than three-quarters of women disobey the devices.
Over one third of drivers said their navigation system had led them between one and five miles astray, while more than half said directions provided by global positioning systems had triggered an argument with a passenger. You know what else can trigger an argument? Getting hopelessly lost because the man behind the wheel won’t ask for directions- not even from a machine.
One man explains it this way - "A GPS should aid your own navigational abilities rather than replace them." No word on whether the man answered to the name Magellan….
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