catering to the racing demo
Tell me you’re not on a motorcycle without telling me you’re on a motorcycle
In my experience many recreational motorcyclists specifically seek out curvey roads as they are fun. Am I missing something?
OPs post says they hate turning. Hence my comment
That wasn’t saecasm at all
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.
Oh man, I’d love the 'no dangerous interactions ’ one. Just today, the map tried to have me cross a busy 4 lane street at an uncontrolled intersection. Thankfully construction rerouted me and I was able turn into the parking lot much easier than crossing
Afaik this is already included in the calculation for the fastest route.
I don’t want fastest. I want least stressful. No left turns without a traffic light. No really short merges. And if it could find a way to route all the chaotic idiots along some other road, that would be perfect.
Waze likes to pull this sort of dumb shit all the time.
Like yeah, maybe it’d save me a minute or two but I’d rather wait to take a left turn at a protected left turn light than try to cross 3 lanes of opposite traffic from some obscure side street.
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.
I used to live in GA, and there was a one-way street that google maps was constantly telling me to turn the wrong direction onto. It really bugs me that I switched to Waze because it was better than google maps, then google just bought them. Long past time to bring antitrust suits against big tech. At least we have an FTC chair at the moment who’s trying to make some progress.
But if you get t-boned then your journey is finished immediately
lol you want new and useful features in the last 10 years? Here’s where you can find Popeyes on the way.
You ending up in Chico or red bluff?
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
I would avoid Redding if I could as well
Anything to avoid Reno.
Or Nevada
Though Shasta is nice this time of year.
Not gonna argue with that one. It sure is.
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.”
Every time Picard asks Data a question.
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.
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.
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!
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
And loop de loops
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.
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
CA’s a long boi
Yes, you correct. My mistake, sorry about that. I fixed it.
Fewer turns but there’s a Bend in the middle
Fewer turns? I am almost positive there are two sections of switchbacks across two mountain passes in that ‘alternate’ route.
Why is the title “Thanks, Google”? Isn’t that Apple Maps?
Because thanks Obama!
also bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe I hAvE aN iNfOrMeD oPiNiOn!
You are indeed correct. My mistake, sorry about that. I fixed it.
It is. Apple Maps recommends a combo of the fastest and most popular routes. Sometimes the popular routes are shown as options because they’re nicer.
This goes through Bend Oregon, home of the last Blockbuster on Earth. That’s a solid recommendation IMHO.
Fewer turns but one more Bend.