My Mind on GPS

Two weeks ago I drove across the country in four days. Our GPS died on the third day but we had a good map and a mother who kindly looked places up for us on the Internet and called us back with the directions. Overall it went pretty well. Honestly we got slightly lost four times, thrice while we had access to the GPS. The only other time I worked with a GPS was on my mission and I didn't use one much then.
I find that when I work with a GPS three things happen to my brain.
1. The GPS works great, showing the roads nicely and leading us directly to where we need to go through unknown roads and I pay attention on the way. Meaning it's teaching me.
2. The GPS tells me where to go and I follow it blindly and I get wherever I was going and say "I have no idea how I got here. There's no way I could retrace my steps." Another words I wasn't paying attention and have now lost myself. . . especially unhelpful if I will be driving there later and need to learn the area.
3. I follow the GPS knowing it is heading me in the wrong direction (whether the address was incomplete or it is just not working correctly), but not trusting myself enough to not follow it. After all it's technology. It has to be right. Right? And then I end up where I don't want to be, and turn it off, and get out a map and figure it out based on the map and my own intuition, leaving me really frustrated with the GPS.
The problem is most of the time either options 2 or 3 happens to me. At first I thought I hated GPSs but after it being so helpful (some of the time) on our trip I realized that it isn't the GPS that I hate, it is the way I either go stupid or doubt myself when I use one. I find it really frustrating.
Neither of those ever happen when I just use a map :) (but sometimes maps are inaccurate, incomplete, or not detailed enough, and they can't just tell you where you are).