11-22-2017, 03:37 PM
Well there isn't a chipmunk inside the GPS doing the calculating.
Routing software tends to promote the easier to follow and well marked routes to get to a destination.
Usually after using the route planning app for a while you can figure its planning limitations.
The GPS in the Volvo would often build new routes on the fly to avoid traffic congestion. It didn't seem to have the ability to assess traffic on alternate routes until you were navigating them. Too many times coming fromNY thru Ct it would want me to get off the highway onto city surface roads and once there start planning routes further off into the burbs to avoid those. In too many cases I would have been better off time-wise to just suck it up and stay stuck in traffic on the original route.Software was good for avoiding traffic jams due to accidents or construction but general commuting congestion ? Not so much.
It's a tool with limitations and as long as you are aware of its limitations you know when to use it or not.
Routing software tends to promote the easier to follow and well marked routes to get to a destination.
Usually after using the route planning app for a while you can figure its planning limitations.
The GPS in the Volvo would often build new routes on the fly to avoid traffic congestion. It didn't seem to have the ability to assess traffic on alternate routes until you were navigating them. Too many times coming fromNY thru Ct it would want me to get off the highway onto city surface roads and once there start planning routes further off into the burbs to avoid those. In too many cases I would have been better off time-wise to just suck it up and stay stuck in traffic on the original route.Software was good for avoiding traffic jams due to accidents or construction but general commuting congestion ? Not so much.
It's a tool with limitations and as long as you are aware of its limitations you know when to use it or not.