Alrighty, so I got to test my TT1 on its very first road trip to a foreign place (I've never been to Cali before).
I forgot to ask this forum whether the 650 or 665 maps were better before I left. I went with 660 and it faired well. There was only one glitch where it took me off the expressway then back on immediately. Oh and Lexus of Newport was at Tustin Lexus. Other than that, it had almost all the POIs I was looking for on my trip. It navigated me flawlessly to all my destinations from SF to LV to LA to SD and back to SF via the PCH. I even tried TT Traffic on morning to get around LA rush hour traffic and it worked well! (I've never seen so many traffic icons when I browsed the traffic map around LA!)
There were lots of "keep left then stay in the left lane" on the highway as many of the exit ramps were multi-laned and because of their design, TomTom thinks that they are forks in the road rather than an off ramp. Also, it was VERY useful in seeing the curves in the road up ahead during night driving along the PCH and Yosemite. If it wasn't for TT, I would've been doing 20-30mph along the PCH (speed limit I think is 55 in some places...45 in others IIRC). With TomTom and my friend helping me out (stupid CA doesn't allow anything stuck to the windshield), I was able to navigate the PCH as if I've driven through it a thousand times and not hold anybody up behind me.
It also saved a lot of time and fuel looking for food stops along the way (as well as exit ramps that we can pull over and switch drivers since some exits were junctions and led to another freeway). I didn't like the fact that Navcore 7 limited your search results to 4 pages only (that's 24 results) versus the 50 that were available before.
An interesting point to note is a trip from SF to LV. Google Maps said 8? hours (no traffic). TT said 10? hours. That's a 2 hour difference. We got there in 9? hours including a lunch stop (~1 hour) plus certain unmentionable sustained speeds. Given that, I'd say TT was probably closer than Google Maps.
My friend was so impressed with TT that he's even thinking of getting one.
I forgot to ask this forum whether the 650 or 665 maps were better before I left. I went with 660 and it faired well. There was only one glitch where it took me off the expressway then back on immediately. Oh and Lexus of Newport was at Tustin Lexus. Other than that, it had almost all the POIs I was looking for on my trip. It navigated me flawlessly to all my destinations from SF to LV to LA to SD and back to SF via the PCH. I even tried TT Traffic on morning to get around LA rush hour traffic and it worked well! (I've never seen so many traffic icons when I browsed the traffic map around LA!)
There were lots of "keep left then stay in the left lane" on the highway as many of the exit ramps were multi-laned and because of their design, TomTom thinks that they are forks in the road rather than an off ramp. Also, it was VERY useful in seeing the curves in the road up ahead during night driving along the PCH and Yosemite. If it wasn't for TT, I would've been doing 20-30mph along the PCH (speed limit I think is 55 in some places...45 in others IIRC). With TomTom and my friend helping me out (stupid CA doesn't allow anything stuck to the windshield), I was able to navigate the PCH as if I've driven through it a thousand times and not hold anybody up behind me.
It also saved a lot of time and fuel looking for food stops along the way (as well as exit ramps that we can pull over and switch drivers since some exits were junctions and led to another freeway). I didn't like the fact that Navcore 7 limited your search results to 4 pages only (that's 24 results) versus the 50 that were available before.
An interesting point to note is a trip from SF to LV. Google Maps said 8? hours (no traffic). TT said 10? hours. That's a 2 hour difference. We got there in 9? hours including a lunch stop (~1 hour) plus certain unmentionable sustained speeds. Given that, I'd say TT was probably closer than Google Maps.
My friend was so impressed with TT that he's even thinking of getting one.