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>If you're in your own neighborhood then you should be able to re-route yourself once you see traffic ahead. How does this answer the other commenter's point?
by spike021 4y ago
>If you're in your own neighborhood then you should be able to re-route yourself once you see traffic ahead.
How does this answer the other commenter's point?
If the grocery store is 2 miles away, wouldn't you rather be routed an alternative route at one mile distance away by GPS that "knows" there's terrible traffic congestion the remaining two blocks of the current route? Especially if those two blocks are after a couple of turns which block your view of them?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoIf I don't see the traffic, then the traffic isn't affecting me. If I see the traffic ahead, in my own neighborhood, I reroute myself. Anyway, I think you probably burn more time dicking around with your phone than you could ever save by avoiding traffic on the way to a grocery store that, if you're in a city, is probably within walking distance anyway.
- spike021 4y agoI think you took nothing from my point. The way you describe it, I would think your "route" is just one long stretch on a single street. In almost every normal case, I may not know there's an accident at one intersection until I turn onto the street two blocks away. Also, opening Google or Apple maps with traffic mode turned on takes maybe half a minute at most, which is about the amount of time it takes my car to finish its cold start warm-up before I can start driving.