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I've consistently observed the same creeping ETA on Apple Maps. Sometimes it's blatantly clear when planning a route when the estimated travel time and distanc
by bradfa 3y ago
I've consistently observed the same creeping ETA on Apple Maps. Sometimes it's blatantly clear when planning a route when the estimated travel time and distance results in needing my average speed to be higher than any speed limit along the route. More often it's just that I'm traveling at a reasonable speed yet the ETA just keeps creeping out and out.
Additionally, maybe it is some settings I have on my iPhone, but Apple Maps seems to not make recommendations but just execute them, with no input from me. Recently we tried were navigating out of Burlington, VT, USA and specifically chose a route to avoid the ferry only to have Apple Maps decide we really should take the ferry without ever asking if we wanted to accept the route change.
- 0xffff2 3y agoI expect your idea of "reasonable speed" does not align well with the actual average speed of travelers along the route. The only time I see this ETA creeping behavior is when I'm on long a long trip, not in a hurry, and I intentionally drive at the speed limit instead of at the average speed of traffic to conserve fuel. A navigation app that estimated based solely off of the posted speed limits would be utterly useless for 99% of all drivers. Ideally the app would learn from your actual driving habits and adapt based on them, but I don't know if any of the big 3 do that.
- bradfa 3y agoI think it's totally unreasonable for a mapping app to ever assume you can travel at a higher speed than the posted speed limit, but they all seem to do it.
- 0xffff2 3y agoThey all do it because within a very small margin of error, that's how everyone drives.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoIt should be illegal to estimate times lower than you can achieve within the speed limit - it means people leave later and have to speed to show up on time.