GM really doesn’t get it

[Herdfan]

Man, I never use nav. It just seems wrong. I would rather just comprehend where I am, using the big lump of bacon in my head.

We had neighbors that probably couldn’t have gotten to the store without it.

My wife went with her and another neighbor to see Wicked in Dayton. And they had gone to dinner on the same road as the hotel. Her and the other neighbor had some wine so they had my wife drive back home.

Well the one who relied on Nav wanted to put it in so they could get back to the hotel and she was puzzled as to why my wife didn’t need it.

 

[Hrafn]

Man, I never use nav. It just seems wrong. I would rather just comprehend where I am, using the big lump of bacon in my head. Sometimes I will turn the map on out of curiosity, but not for long. I understand that some people put the nav into the HUD, but man do I hate the HUD.

I guess I am just a fading luddite.

I commute at least an hour a day. I use an app to determine if my current route is still the fastest one…

 

[Cmaier]

I commute at least an hour a day. I use an app to determine if my current route is still the fastest one…

me too. It’s saved me countless hours stuck in traffic.

 

[Eric]

I commute at least an hour a day. I use an app to determine if my current route is still the fastest one…

One you trust? The issue I have, with Waze for example, is it will often try to take me off the freeway for a couple of off-ramps and often times with lights and all it's still slower than just staying in traffic. I'll typically ignore its suggestions as a result.

 

[diamond.g]

One you trust? The issue I have, with Waze for example, is it will often try to take me off the freeway for a couple of off-ramps and often times with lights and all it's still slower than just staying in traffic. I'll typically ignore its suggestions as a result.

After all this time there is no way to tell the routing not to bother unless you save more than X amount of time? That is kind of crazy.

 

[Yoused]

it will often try to take me off the freeway

While I understand what you are saying, there was one time we were on 90 in Gary, headed west, and I decided to get off the freeway, onto 12, because I had had some experience with Chicago freeways. We trudged through town, eventually up Lakeshore Drive and cut back over to the freeway at Gurney, well north of the metro area. The trip took around 90 minutes, but, at that time of day (the time between 5am and 10pm), it would have taken about 90 minutes on the freeway. The big difference being that, on the freeway, you sit there yelling "why are we sitting here???" whereas no not-the-freeway, you can see why you are stopped and have a pretty decent idea of when you will not be stopped.

Also, the freeways through Chicago have tolls, while US12 through the city does not. Of course, the other major difference is that the freeways have overpass-plazas where you can conveniently stop to deal with fluid pressures, whereas, in the city, it takes a bit more effort to find a practical place for that.