Hello All,
Last weekend and this past weekend I took my first road trip with my new TT920. Some good, bad and downright ugly happend on the trip. I need some clarification on the bad and ugly. Well here goes:
Trip was from Baltimore, MD to Raleigh NC:
Good:
Traffic planning and time of trip where right on point even thouh I had to make a few unexpected bathroom breaks, kids (3,8,10) nuff said right.
Bad:
Why doesnt my 920 display the speed limit. Arent I-95 and I-85 major routes?
While coming back through Richmond my 920 said that there was traffic congestion ahead. Im new to this but shouldnt it have told me there was an accident on I-95 (I new this because of the flashing signs on the highway). Anyway, 5 miles up the road I manually checked traffic again and it says "no delays on route". Less then 1 mile later, 920 says delays ahead route replanned. It did take me around the accident but why the confusion??? Or am I just missing something here???
UGLY:
Two major things and number 2 could get someone killed on the road.
1. While still in Northern VA on I-95 good ole 920 tells me to take a left ahead... hmmm make a hard left on 95 sure im gonna do that.. then when I didnt turn when it wanted me to, my lovley computer comanion told me to make a u-turn when possible... about 1/8 of a mile afterwards I guess the 920figured I couldnt make a u-turn on 95 so it recalulated. (This happend on both of my trips back to Baltimore)
2. Now for the kicker. I have now made it to 495N towards Baltimore (anywone that knows this area, can releate to the traffic patterns on a Sunday night) Good thing I am from this area because listening to the TT could have cause me to get killed!!! 920 says in 2 miles take "left" exit, now I say to myself.. self the last 100 times you have traveled this way that exit has always been on the right.. and sure enough it was still on the right last night.. my 920 was telling me the exit was on the left even while I was on the ramp... now the reason I, like most people by navigation systems, is because we need help when we are in unfamiliar roads. There would have been no way in H*** for me to get across 4 lanes of traffic to take that exit if I would have been in the left lane like my 920 was telling me to do. I think it happened on my last trip but I was on auto pilot so I wasnt too close attention when I thought I heard it tell me to take the left exit.
Ok one last issue/concern:
While in Raliegh, I was using VR to navigate to an address that I only knew the street name. How do you do this when the street is only a 1/4 mile long with no cross streets? I had to start at 1000 and work my way up before I got an address on the street. What is the best way to handle those situations?
Ok off my soap box and thanks for listening (reading)
Last weekend and this past weekend I took my first road trip with my new TT920. Some good, bad and downright ugly happend on the trip. I need some clarification on the bad and ugly. Well here goes:
Trip was from Baltimore, MD to Raleigh NC:
Good:
Traffic planning and time of trip where right on point even thouh I had to make a few unexpected bathroom breaks, kids (3,8,10) nuff said right.
Bad:
Why doesnt my 920 display the speed limit. Arent I-95 and I-85 major routes?
While coming back through Richmond my 920 said that there was traffic congestion ahead. Im new to this but shouldnt it have told me there was an accident on I-95 (I new this because of the flashing signs on the highway). Anyway, 5 miles up the road I manually checked traffic again and it says "no delays on route". Less then 1 mile later, 920 says delays ahead route replanned. It did take me around the accident but why the confusion??? Or am I just missing something here???
UGLY:
Two major things and number 2 could get someone killed on the road.
1. While still in Northern VA on I-95 good ole 920 tells me to take a left ahead... hmmm make a hard left on 95 sure im gonna do that.. then when I didnt turn when it wanted me to, my lovley computer comanion told me to make a u-turn when possible... about 1/8 of a mile afterwards I guess the 920figured I couldnt make a u-turn on 95 so it recalulated. (This happend on both of my trips back to Baltimore)
2. Now for the kicker. I have now made it to 495N towards Baltimore (anywone that knows this area, can releate to the traffic patterns on a Sunday night) Good thing I am from this area because listening to the TT could have cause me to get killed!!! 920 says in 2 miles take "left" exit, now I say to myself.. self the last 100 times you have traveled this way that exit has always been on the right.. and sure enough it was still on the right last night.. my 920 was telling me the exit was on the left even while I was on the ramp... now the reason I, like most people by navigation systems, is because we need help when we are in unfamiliar roads. There would have been no way in H*** for me to get across 4 lanes of traffic to take that exit if I would have been in the left lane like my 920 was telling me to do. I think it happened on my last trip but I was on auto pilot so I wasnt too close attention when I thought I heard it tell me to take the left exit.
Ok one last issue/concern:
While in Raliegh, I was using VR to navigate to an address that I only knew the street name. How do you do this when the street is only a 1/4 mile long with no cross streets? I had to start at 1000 and work my way up before I got an address on the street. What is the best way to handle those situations?
Ok off my soap box and thanks for listening (reading)