When I was in Virginia on business trips this summer I always felt like my cab driver got bothered when I was silent at him. Not non-conversational, just - "when I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed." Numsayin'? I had to use a different guy once and he was asking me how to get to the train station. I was like "dude, I don't know, I clearly neither live here nor drive to the train station myself."
I took Amtrak from Seattle to Vancouver once. BNSF said "double eagles, bitchez, this be our track today" so my train turned into a chartered bus. The bus driver got lost in Vancouver on the way to the train station. And all of us were American with no Canadian data plan. And none of us wanted to pay $1.42/MB to fire up Google Maps. We ended up voting on where to go. Somehow, crowdsourcing navigation worked in the end, albeit not very efficiently.