When I got my last new car just over 2 years ago, the car salesman was amazed to see a road atlas on the back seat of the car I was selling. He asked me if I actually still used it. I never use a Satnav except occasionally for if I am trying to find a specific location in a large complicated urban area. Even if I’m doing a long journey of a few hundred miles, I study the map before I set off, and then can usually memorise the route without getting lost.
Reminds me of a especially smarmy, patronising BBC reporter (not seen every much anymore) a few years ago during inclement weather telling us all about the precautions we should take when driving in such...basically stating the obvious !...who said, if your sat nav fails, you'll need one of these old fashioned things....smirky smile as he held up... road atlas !
Like others on here, I check a route on a map first, and rarely use sat nav...my late lady's friend was amazed for example when on our last holiday, I drove to Seton Sands holiday park (very nice place) without using sat nav...there again, when I first acquired one a few years ago, when testing it, I was amused when it told me to leave the M60 at the A56..and rejoin
after the Carrington spur !
I do wonder at times about the abilities of recent generations, now heavily reliant on technology, and their ability to cope when it crashes....map reading being one obvious example.