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You looked at a map beforehand and saw what directions to go. The map book has an index in the back to find destinations.
You often wrote a note for yourself beforehand. Rt 40, take exit 17a, take 97 S exit, Rt onto Brookshire,
You didn't need to know north.
I drove for decades before gps. No one taught me how to use a map. You bought one and it was obvious because it was the same as any text book with an index in the back.
You act like kids are stupid.
lol how do you orient the map then?
I act like kids need experience and practice.
Are you confused as to which way to hold a book?
You don't need to know North when reading a road map. It isn't Boy Scouts where you have a terrain map and you are trying to orientate yourself to unlabeled terrain.
You have road intersections labeled in real life and on the map. You only need to know to travel along a road and turn right or left until you get to the next road at which point you again turn right or left until you reach your destination.
My friend's 1990's era Jaguar came with a navigation that worked like that. There was no map. It was a text display that displayed directions as turn by turn directions.
Honestly, I suspect a lot of that kind of mentality is just projecting by people who struggled with something and assume everyone will struggle as well. Or people who just have a need to feel superior to other people by trying to gatekeep something by pretending it's super difficult to learn/do.