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Fewer turns but one more Bend.
Can they add an option to show roads with more twist for us riding a motorbike? I’d love to road trip without having to look too closely at the map for nice roads.
Might wanna ask them about that directly. I certainly won’t be able to answer that question.
Why not OP? I’m not paying you to slack off!
No, you’re not paying me at all, that’s the problem.
and with an attitude like that, I’m gonna cut pay in half from now on. What kind of customer service is that?
Yeah, that oughta teach me to provide better service. /s
If you use Waze instead, they actually have a setting you can toggle for roads that are more twisty. In my experience it works great!
I had no idea. That’s so great!
And loop de loops
Kurviger is what you’re looking for
There’s a bunch of motorcycle specific apps for people who want to use their phone to navigate (I recommend using an old phone if you plan to mount it to your motorcycle, vibration can kill the camera)
I love that one as well, can be used as a launcher on Android, IIRC you can even use it with two devices so you don’t have to take the SIM out of your good phone.
They always seem to force alternative routes regardless whether there are any.
I regularly see “alternatives” which are just taking a turn, doing a 180 in a roundabout and reentering the same route as before. Because why wouldn’t I just waste 10 mins just for fun?
The best alternatives are the ones you find zooming into the map. The software knows it can’t recommend anybody take them because they’ll immediately become slower than the main routes.
Also never seen the roundabout 180
Also never seen the roundabout 180
Actually had it a couple of times. It has to be a bug but it’s been happening for a while now…
We noticed you liked that tree. Would you like to see it again in 45 minutes?
imagine the poor person who does this for you losing their job to ai 😔
Except they never display the real alternatives when they DO exist! Often I’ll be driving in an area I know well, and there will be a crash or roadwork or something and Google will say “welp, better just add 30 minutes to your 30 minute commute” and I’m like “nah fam there’s a whole other road”
I dunno how they can consistently fuck up that bad.
What I want is specifically “no left turns.” Because that could actually save me time. “Fewer 🚦s” and “no dangerous instructions” would also be good.
lol you want new and useful features in the last 10 years? Here’s where you can find Popeyes on the way.
Afaik this is already included in the calculation for the fastest route.
How come it tried to send me to make a left onto a major thoroughfare from a tiny side street rather than the major one with a controlled left arrow (a blessed rarity in my city) a few blocks away? Yeah maybe someone did it and scraped a few seconds off their time because they got lucky with the cross traffic, but someone who doesn’t know the area is gonna get tboned.
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Is that a regional setting? Never saw “fewer turns” as an option in my app. Only saw “most environmental” when it takes a shorter router even though it’s slower
I’ve never seen “most environmental” or “fewer turns”. We get “fewer toll roads” and sometimes “avoids traffic” during rush hour
A couple weeks ago I had to travel for work and I picked the longer one because I got paid for more miles and it meant I would get back right at the end of the day so I wouldn’t have to do anything else that afternoon. Also on that 2 hour drive I think I saw 5-6 cars for the first 3/4 of it which was pretty great.
I’m surprised that works. At my job they make us put in the origin and destination and will only pay the mileage for the shortest route.
catering to the racing demo
Fewer turns? I am almost positive there are two sections of switchbacks across two mountain passes in that ‘alternate’ route.
It’s an option!? I get severely motion sick in cars and I’d love those easier roads
Also, looking at the road, it doesn’t seems to be that bad. It ain’t central France bad
Weird flex but ok
Anything to avoid Reno.
Or Nevada
Reno is an awesome town now, you should check it out.
Tell me you’re not on a motorcycle without telling me you’re on a motorcycle
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This is Apple Maps.
Apple Maps doesn’t just recommend the fastest routes, it also appears to push the most popular routes as alternatives.
Here is the San Francisco area to LA in iOS 18. The longer route might seem insane if you’re not familiar with the drive, but that longer route is much prettier, and a lot of people intentionally drive in the coastal road for the views.
Edit: Weird. Lemmy isn’t loading the picture for me. All in all, this is a map of I5 to LA vs the Hyw 101 to LA. I5 is 2 hours faster, but it’s a long brown valley, it smells like cow shit, and you’re bombarded with homemade MAGA signs for several hours. It’s a drive of hate, farts, and truck stop food. 101 longer, but it’s recommended for redwoods forests and cute little beach towns.
California is ridiculous. I’m from San Francisco, was visiting LA and someone asked me where I lived. I pointed to 101 and said, turn left on that road and keep going for 8 hours.
Edit: sorry, “the 101”. When in Rome, etc
User: “Please give me the three fastest routes, with each answer weighted by different criteria”
Computer: “Okay, here you go.”
User: “Two of these are slower than the third, you stupid piece of shit, I hate you.”
