RE: GPS routing Keep in mind that the GPS is going to select either the shortest or fastest route, depending on what you select in the various menu options. And if you select an option such as 'Avoid Major Highways' you will get a really obscure backroads 'up the alley' type route. This happened to me one time when I'd accidentally selected 'Avoid Main Highways' and produces a good laugh. Here is a another example that I've see twice now. When passing through Reno, south bound, my GPS kept trying to take me off the freeway and through town on surface streets. That was the shortest route. Since I knew the road I ignored it but it kept trying to reroute me that way. After I got to the point where the surface streets were no longer the shortest route the GPS quit bitching at me and told me to continue on on the highway I was on. In another case the GPS wanted me to take a toll road that I didn't want to take. Consequently I was routed through a very high traffic area that I could have avoided. This was in an area that I'd driven several times before but by the time I realized what was happening it was to late to take what would have been a quicker route (considering traffic). And at the same time I was experimenting with allowing the GPS to select the route. So lesson learned and passed on to you. |
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