• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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

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        3 months ago

        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.

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          3 months ago

          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.

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        3 months ago

        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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          3 months ago

          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.

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    3 months ago

    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.”

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    3 months ago

    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.

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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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

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    3 months ago

    Fewer turns? I am almost positive there are two sections of switchbacks across two mountain passes in that ‘alternate’ route.

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      3 months ago

      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.