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[Torvy]

I think it’s a Garmin but I would need to confirm that before stating it as fact.

Janet

I have had the best luck with Waze on an Android phone. I know it is available on Apple, but not sure if there are tangible differences.

I would use the Garmin and another concurrently in those fuzzy areas to see if one is better.

Maybe Scranton area or Delawre are fuzzy so people don't find the President?

 

[Torvy]

I live on a rural two lane oil and chip road but there is a four lane road nearby. We have noticed an increase of people shortcutting by our house and some of the roads nearby. Depending on where your going the “shortest route” from gps takes you by our house or other nearby back roads. I get it, there public roads that’s fine but the big rigs are a problem, they can’t make the corners. I talked to the county engineer about putting up “NO THROUGH TRUCKS” signs up. This requires working with the state DOT. In other words nothing is going to happen.

You are in Illinois, so I am sure you know DOT will do whatever you want if the right people get the right amount of 'incentive ' pay.

 

[deserteagle71]

GPS and old maps can be wrong.

Absolutely!
Below is a shot I took of my GPS unit at a reservoir here in Nevada. The reservoir was built in 1974 - yet nearly 50 years later, Garmin GPS maps still show the roads that used to exist before the reservoir was built, running through the reservoir. Well, good luck with that. This is why you read news articles about people following their GPS routes directly into a body of water.

 

[MossRoad]

I find waze to be superior to other options when trying to find the quickest or shortest route. It uses data from its users to determine slowdowns and I have learned shortcuts even close to home. Waze has probably saved me hours of my life, both in fewer hours on the road and less stress. It is best, for me, when dealing with traffic in cities.

That being said, I don't NEED a GPS, I just find it to be a handy tool. Just like a hammer. I could use a piece of angle iron, rock, or some such to pound a nail, the hammer is just more efficient.

That sums it up pretty well.

It’s an electronic collection of more maps than you could possibly carry. Most are updated more frequently than paper maps. Compass, speed, and a look ahead is included. The look ahead is pretty valuable. You can see that the road ahead, over the hill and around the curve, has a off ramp or a clover leaf, or some resemblance of a bowl of spaghetti.

There’s just some folks that either fear technology, or are too stubborn to admit that ”because we’ve always done it that way” may no longer be the best way to do something today.

 

[IndyJay]

I think it’s a Garmin but I would need to confirm that before stating it as fact.

Janet

Sorry your more recent post got 86'd... tried to like it but couldn't

I gave up on my Garmin. Even with updates it went into a "spin" when approaching Indy on westbound 74 because of not so recent construction changes. Then would send me on the loop all the way around the city for a location that was only a couple miles from the exit nearest the "spin".

Coming back from that location it was fine which was how I learned that I was routed the long way. I guess it also had a "senior moment" like Scranton.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yesterday waze said there was a hail storm 1/2 mile ahead. Hot blazing sun and not a cloud in the sky. I thought someone might have accidentally reported it, but I don’t see reporting hail as a choice.

 

[Jstpssng]

There’s just some folks that either fear technology, or are too stubborn to admit that ”because we’ve always done it that way” may no longer be the best way to do something today.

Or because they had bad experiences with people who embraced the technology, as the case in the incident I've mentioned previously. A coworker was one who'd spend too much time looking at the GPS, then couldn't understand how people can drive so fast... AKA "the speed limit." He scared me more than a couple of times before learning to watch the road instead of his GPS.

 

[Jstpssng]

Yesterday waze said there was a hail storm 1/2 mile ahead. Hot blazing sun and not a cloud in the sky. I thought someone might have accidentally reported it, but I don’t see reporting hail as a choice.

Not quite the same but I was driving down I-95 a few years ago on a hot summer day when the warning signs they use in winter road conditions came up showing "Reduce speed limit, 45mph." Thinking there must have been an accident I peeled off speed and drove like that guy everybody hates, while traffic when flying past me. After the next offramp the signs had been turned off so I don't know if it was an accident which had been cleared, a glitch in the computer, somebody had pushed the wrong button or the sun in my eyes. (Probably not the last... it was fairly early in the AM and I was headed west.)

 

[Gator6x4]

I have two GM Vehicle. Remote Start, heated seat, heated steering wheel, cruise control, adaptive cruise on one of the vehicles, navigational systems, XM Radio and a host of other features. When the complimentary On Star ended I did not elect to pay for that since I use my cell phone which I have paired with the vehicle. Navigational upgrades also have not been purchased. Incidentally Garmin Navigational Units are great and offer life time free updates.

For the GM vehicles I store name and address data, etc on my iPhone and use the information on the iPhone to obtain a GPD location, make phone calls etc when traveling.

The only month fees I pay are for the commercial free XM Radio. Now if I wanted the capability to lock and unlock or start one of the vehicles while I was traveling on an airplane several states away or from a foreign country I would pay for, and have On Star.

I can also load music (CD Albums) on a 264 GB USB drive and play it from the radio in either vehicle.

 

[Gator6x4]

Not quite the same but I was driving down I-95 a few years ago on a hot summer day when the warning signs they use in winter road conditions came up showing "Reduce speed limit, 45mph." Thinking there must have been an accident I peeled off speed and drove like that guy everybody hates, while traffic when flying past me. After the next offramp the signs had been turned off so I don't know if it was an accident which had been cleared, a glitch in the computer, somebody had pushed the wrong button or the sun in my eyes. (Probably not the last... it was fairly early in the AM and I was headed west.)

Electronic road signs malfunction occasionally. The human behind the wheel in the vehicle must use sensory input and change or adapt to existing condition and not let a electronic device be the one making the decision.

A good example of what is being discussed are the California Tesla Drivers. Tesla drivers using auto pilot have been involved in 273 reported crashes over roughly the past year in California.

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