Article: Are we lost yet, Dad?(automobile navigational systems)(Brief Article)

It's one thing to lose yourself on vacation. It's quite another to get lost, as Jennifer Johannessen discovered on a road trip from New York to Boston. Dot-com directions and the atlas couldn't keep up with the Big Dig, a $12.6 billion expressway project that's turned Boston into an often confusing construction site. Trying to reach the USS Constitution in the city's harbor, Johannessen found herself on a maddening 45-minute odyssey along Route 93. "None of the exits were clearly marked," she remembers. Finally a ranger at the Bunker Hill Monument told her to follow the Freedom Trail--a red line linking 16 historic sites from there to the ship.

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