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Some say arrival time, not drive time. Arrival time misleading if it's sending you on. A 26-hour journey, and you have to choose to view the full route, often
by Pxtl 11y ago
Some say arrival time, not drive time. Arrival time misleading if it's sending you on. A 26-hour journey, and you have to choose to view the full route, often through a tedious UI.
IMHO, this is a place where blaming the user is inappropriate. GPS trips exceeding 3 hours are rare enough that it would be perfectly reasonable for it to make you click through a few extra bits of information in those cases.
- mikeash 11y agoI can buy the case for improving the systems, but not blaming the users? These things don't claim to be more than they are: they are driving aids, not brain substitutes. If it's hard to figure out if they're giving you appropriate advice, then you do it anyway, or don't use them. If manufacturers were making grandiose claims then yeah, blame them. But if anything, the claims are overly conservative because they're afraid of liability.