Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps

Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by brlewis on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:16AM (#12966581)

When traversing an intersection with odd angles often the voice prompt will say something like "slight right" for the road I think of as straight ahead, or vice versa. A glance at the map clears these up.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by throwanem on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:21AM (#12966610)

Mine did that a couple of times even in the short route on which I tried it out. I didn't have trouble understanding what was meant, because the configuration of the intersections made only one interpretation sensible. I can see how that might not be true in all cases, but I'm not sure the occasional disambiguation is worth the distraction of a visible moving map display.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by nommm-nommm on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:50AM (#12968794)

There's one road the gps says "take exit 36" then at the last possible second it says "keep left" which is exit 35 (they share an exit ramp).

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