The Road Less Traveled

Lately I've noticed people doing U-Turns just about anywhere on our roadways, leading to today's question:

"What ever happened to finding a driveway or a business parking lot to turn around in?"

On more than one occasion I've seen drivers pull U-Turns in the middle of the road.  It's obvious that they are oblivious to any other drivers around them and they seem to not really understand the issues they are creating for other drivers.

My only thought on this, is that it is probably a by-product of GPS.  It's a wonderful device, but I think driver's have gotten overly reliant on GPS.  They are driving along, miss their turn and the GPS devices tells them that they need to do a U-Turn.  At this point the driver stops thinking and is just going along with what the GPS device told them to do.  The driver doesn't think about where the safest place to do a U-Turn is, they just do a U-Turn wherever is convenient for them.

Have any of you noticed more people doing U-Turns in ridiculous places lately?  I'm waiting to see someone pull a U-Turn on I-95 sometime in the near future.  Do you think that GPS has lead to unsafe U-Turn practice or unsafe driving practice in general?