OT:Crap apps of the year (so far award)

We only ever select fast or short. Looking at the proposed alleged green routes, I've never seen why one would be greener than another. However.

Trouble with our SatNav is that if we select fast, it insists on motorway/big-road routes. If we select short, we end up going down the narrow lanes. So we always select fast and then do our own thing. It scores in towns/cities though, which we likely are unfamiliar with.

I noticed. So when you see a warning that the exit it wanted you to take has an hours delay, and you come off early, it spends the next 20 miles trying to route you back onto it.

It would have been trivial to add some (switchable) logic that miss 2 indicated turns and it should assume your primary route is blocked for some reason.

Yes, I wonder why it bothers getting traffic info too ...

Oh, another annoyance. After many years of pleading (read the google maps support forum) they finally introduced displaying speed limits when not routing, just driving.

Now they've removed it, again.

I still await the incredibly useful (and unique) Waze "Driving mode". If it was possible I would use Waze with Android Auto. But I learned many years ago that won't fly. Not when it matters.

Pity about the live traffic data from monitoring the pigs off mobile phone bases.

We aren't forced to go green, you are free to choose the quicker non green route.

Unlikely to be able to ask those that made that decision.

My main route into town has done for almost a decade now. past two schools which are almost next to each other, one a govt primary school and the other a roman catholic high school. But that is the route that the locals always did use even before google maps or satnavs ever showed up, as opposed to the main drag which is the main alternative.

Initially google.maps did route you down the main drag but for some reason stopped doing that long before the green s*it showed up, presumably because they watched what the locals actually use when travelling that route.

When they discover that the eco choice won't get them there on time and need to get there faster this time.

Not in that situation they don't when the alternative is to do the entire trip again later when they miss the appointment or the place they are going to will be closed when they get there.

Not quite that bad. It ll insist for a few miles, then recalculate the route.

Well quite.

I bought a stand-alone TomTom a few years back. You can currently get one for £119. I bought it for my commute - the jams were different every day.

Andy

Sounds like the village I live in where the main A road from the Sussex Coast to London caused a very minor landslip as it went up a hill between two steep banks. Some earth and tree roots have blocked the pavement but the road could be kept open albeit with single line traffic lights.

County council have decided that it is 'dangerous' and have blocked it off. Been like that since we had that last spell of wet weather before the really cold snap began, so over 3 weeks now.

The local village is now a rat run and all the roads that the traffic is now using are being turned into potholed cart tracks with cars and buses using the pavement to get past parked cars.

Does it understand range reduction for an EV during cold weather ?

Are you sure? Plenty of videos on line on how to use WAZE with Android Auto. I had a vague recollection that it involved payment but I could be wrong.

Tim

Last time I tried, it was OK right up until you wanted to do *anything* that involved searching for destinations. Then GM stole the show.

The bottom line is there is only one mapping app for Android - and whatever you try to set in "defaults" gets ignored.

waze works fine (no payment) on android auto

Well I decided it was cheaper to use the android app, as it always gets latest map updates