Miss Daisy is driving us.

We bought a GPS for NZ and Australia. We program a place to go and we get a female voice that says “Drive the highlighted route”. We call her Miss Daisy. If we make a wrong turn Miss Daisy says ‘recalculating’ and tries to get us back on track by calculating a new route or finding a way for us to turn around. It’s bad enough when we get lost but Miss Daisy sometimes gets lost too. We were in Wellington trying to find our hotel and Miss Daisy says “arriving at destination” and it was in an industrial district right on the train tracks. Thankfully ‘Miss Mary’ was able to recalculate our destination and get us to our hotel.

There was the time we were driving on highway 1 and she showed us driving on highway 12. And the time she showed we were 100 kilometers from our B&B and she announced “arriving at destination” and we were at the B&B. 

The problem is when do you trust or not trust Miss Daisy. There were several times  we were lost and confused and Miss Daisy says turn left at next corner and we’re thinking that can’t be right! So what do you do, your in the middle of traffic, I’m driving on the wrong side of the street (it might be right for New Zealanders to drive on the left side but it’s not right for me), so we make our own decision, we’re still lost, Miss Daisy is ‘recalculating’, we still think she is wrong, but some how we manage to not have a wreck, maybe a honk or two at us, and eventually find our way despite Miss Daisy.

Although Miss Daisy is very helpful, Miss Daisy is driving us crazy.