If you think a GPS is an "it just works" appliance, you obviously haven't actually tried to use it!

What you have just done is equivalent to starting up a "virgin" PC. Oh that thrilling sound of the cooling fans whirring to life and the new monitor beginning to glow! Driving with it, on the other hand may be more like trying to configure that computer to dual-boot Windows 95 and Slackware Linux. Using floppies. Then putting it on an Appletalk network.

Don't worry, it's only that bad if you live around a lot of new (as in, built since the New Deal) roads or are in a remote (as measured from the headquarters of Navteq) part of the US.

Seriously, I love my GPS. She has a sexy Australian accent, apparently named Karen. She's just kind of ignorant about my neighborhood.