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> More awareness of lanes It really makes you wonder if anyone who works on the driving directions of Google Maps has ever used the product. The two most madde
by jeffbee 2y ago
> More awareness of lanes
It really makes you wonder if anyone who works on the driving directions of Google Maps has ever used the product. The two most maddening dysfunctions of their driving directions are 1) displaying and holding a waypoint that is unavoidable, such as "merge onto Highway Whatever" when there are no other options, and 2) holding a direction such as "take exit 42" until the very last moment, even when there is a choice to be made immediately afterward, where you really want guidance about whether to bear left or right at a divergence. Combine them both and you get Google Maps repeatedly telling you to do something you can't avoid at the time when it should have been telling you the next turn.
- hnlmorg 2y agoInteresting you say that because I’ve found their directions to be generally ok on UK roads. Not perfect but not terrible either. The best satnav I’ve ever had was whatever was built into my VW CC. I think it might have been TomTom-based. I loved pretty much every aspect of that satnav. In fact I loved pretty much every aspect of that car too.
- jeffbee 2y agoI remember well the satnav in my last VW. On the center panel of the instrument cluster it displayed accurate and useful diagrams of the next turn including the streets that you were supposed to pass, with less emphasis. I also recall that its voice prompts were very polite, such as "If possible and safe, make a U turn".