How do users of the tomtom find it? I use it even when I know the root but it sends me a longer way! I took a turning today ,not where the tomtom told me and it made the journey 4 miles less! and I was only travelling 11 miles! Anyone fine this a prob?
2006-11-27 07:53:30 · 2 answers · asked by Kevin-------------UK 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
I haven't tried Navigator 6 yet, but v5 does some crazy things. The root of the problem appears to be that it only has three classes of road, and it favors the higher class roads to a ridiculous degree because it has terrible, and fixed, average speeds for the lower class roads. So anyway, in the US it says there are interstates, major roads and everything else. Everything else can be anything from a divided highway with a 65mph limit to a dirt track that is passable only in convoy with other well equipped 4x4s. The link, below, shows where I gave up on a trip from Ruby Lake, NV with a destination of Reno, NV avoiding I80. The correct answer would have been to head south on Long Valley Road or failing that on Strawberry Road, which I had just crossed, but TT5 preferred a bad version of following the Pony Express route over the mountains.
In Canada Tomtom was giving me journey times of 2-3 hours for a 100km trip down a road with a 90km/h limit. On a trip from San Francisco to Port Angeles, WA I took 4 hours out of the Tomtom estimate.
Garmin never gave such bad advice as Tomtom does, and their estimated time of arrival is usually within a couple of percent of accurate, but Tomtom seems to be the best of the current crop all the same.
2006-11-27 08:14:48 · answer #1 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have found mine takes me the most awkward, long or inconvenient route many times
2006-11-27 15:55:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋