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Old 05-07-2022, 01:22 PM   #9
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Default Re: Navigation route options - are they as useless as they appear?

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Originally Posted by T3rminator View Post
Driving out in the regionals, taking the "shortest" or "quickest" route sometimes takes you onto unpaved roads. Depending on the app, it might assume you can go the legal limit on some of those unpaved roads, whereas in fact you can't i.e. massive pot holes everywhere.

Or you might be able to save 2 minutes going on unpaved roads riddled with pot holes, but is it worth it?

Always pays to look carefully on your route if you are doing road trips beyond metro.
I was caught out once following a gps for the first time in a rural area, the road I was following ended up at a farm with locked gates. Me think these gps programmers don't look to see if the maps are updated.
Pays to go into your gps optional settings and do a few tweaks to minimise embarrassment when picking some routes.
Many times I have followed some roads that are lucky to be classed as goat tracks at best.
I always carry road maps for each state when travelling as you cannot beat the old system.

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