Comment on A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today.

• zorgzor@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it's a non-US thing, but here in Sweden GMaps will desperately force you onto roads that it has decided are highways or some other kind of "fast" roads I guess and it makes no sense.

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope. Absolutely not, since highways were 90% of that trip. It did this like halfway through, for no reason that I could think of. No traffic. No accidents up a head. It quite literally had me get off the highway, and reenter at the same interchange!

    The only options I would have enabled would have been “avoid tolls” and “avoid ferries”. Neither of which applied for this

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    • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It may have thought you were taking the off ramp (GPS wobble) and rerouted on the fly.

      Google maps has burned me so often, I now have a pre trip checklist for new routes. Check traffic along the entire route, the approximate on-ramp/exit #s I’ll take, and a quick look at streets around the destination.

      They’ve enshittified the service so much I am just learning “normal” navigation now??? FFS.

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