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it would be easier if it could just read my mind
The trip home from Pennsic involved detours at both ends, so I decided to turn on the GPS app on my phone (Android, Navigator, came pre-loaded) for a running commentary. (Good thing, too; the obvious path out of Cooper's Lake wasn't.) This experience reminded me of some things I really want a GPS to do for me. It's possible that it already does some of these; I'm an infrequent GPS user and was fiddling with it at the side of a rural road.
I want to constrain a route without spelling it out: "Go home from here, taking Route 422 rather than staying on 19 and, in Pittsburgh, detouring through downtown instead of via Liberty Bridge". I can, of course, just do that and let it recalculate, as I did, but I would like it to take that information into account in case there's a better way to execute that plan.
I want it to learn from its recalculations. In an ideal world I would be able to turn it on in "observer" mode while I drive, and then later tell it to navigate as close to my usual habits as possible. My GPS should be able to learn that I don't like the eastbound 376 entrance in Squirrel Hill, or the West End Bridge, or Carson Street during rush hours.
I want to be able to tell it take current conditions into account. My phone knows that it's currently pouring rain or dark; I should be able to tell it "prefer local roads over highways during heavy rain" or "try not to take Business 22 at night" or even "check conditions up ahead and advise me on when to take a rest stop" (for longer trips).
That's just until the self-driving cars are ready, of course.
I want to constrain a route without spelling it out: "Go home from here, taking Route 422 rather than staying on 19 and, in Pittsburgh, detouring through downtown instead of via Liberty Bridge". I can, of course, just do that and let it recalculate, as I did, but I would like it to take that information into account in case there's a better way to execute that plan.
I want it to learn from its recalculations. In an ideal world I would be able to turn it on in "observer" mode while I drive, and then later tell it to navigate as close to my usual habits as possible. My GPS should be able to learn that I don't like the eastbound 376 entrance in Squirrel Hill, or the West End Bridge, or Carson Street during rush hours.
I want to be able to tell it take current conditions into account. My phone knows that it's currently pouring rain or dark; I should be able to tell it "prefer local roads over highways during heavy rain" or "try not to take Business 22 at night" or even "check conditions up ahead and advise me on when to take a rest stop" (for longer trips).
That's just until the self-driving cars are ready, of course.
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oh yes!
It may not play well with your eyes, but Google Maps lets you alter their suggested route by mousing over the (purple, IIRC) line that indicates it on the map display & dragging it onto another street or road. It then recalculates a new set of directions.
You can also make & save custom maps.
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Yes. Exactly. Tech just isn't there yet, and if it were all your travel data would be in the cloud for anyone to steal, but that's my paranoia talking.
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I was in one of these sections last week, but it was at a time that I didn't care which route I took. The GPS was so confused that it took me in circles for 15 minutes because as I would drive along the route, the other route would become shorter!
Sometimes these things just aren't smart.
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And there was much rejoicing.
We got where we wanted the old fashioned way - Morgan reading the map beside me.
Afterward, we went to visit a friend in Netanya and i plotted a route on my ipod touch using google maps, which always goes for shrotest. We wound up hopelessly lost in a development still under construction and had to call our friend for assistance. That was when I could have really used the iPad's assisnce but it was dead. We got a refund from Avis for the iPad rental.
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