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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by pwinnski on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:48AM (#16755845)
Oh man! I would love for any mapping app to notice that I always exit the Dallas North Tollway at Plano Parkway rather than Park Boulevard, because they're very close, but the Plano Parkway exit is free. I do the same thing when it wants me to merge onto the President George Bush Turnpike and immediately take the Midway Road exit. Again, Plano Parkway means one more stoplight (or two, in the case of Midway), but is a free exit. I do it over and over and over again, and yet every mapping app insists that I save a couple of seconds at the expense of 60 cents. Or maybe spend a few seconds extra at the expense of 60 seconds, depending on how luck or unlucky I am with the traffic signals.

In general, I'd love it if mapping apps wouldn't just say "this route includes tolls," but rather "this route includes tolls of $5.10" or however much, so I could decide whether saving 11 minutes is worth it.

But at least I wish they would notice that I always, always exist at Plano Parkway.

Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by reaperducer on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:46PM (#16758285)
>But at least I wish they would notice that I always, always exist at Plano Parkway.

Google can track your shopping habits, your surfing habits, your eating habits, your viewing habits, and probably more habits than we know about.

But somehow driving the same route five sevenths of the week eludes it.

Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by vertex-four on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:30PM (#16756940)
Google Maps in the U.K. has an “avoid tolls” option.
Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by doppelganger27 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:32PM (#16758742)
Google Maps in the U.S. has the avoid tolls option as well. I'm not the poster that previously brought up this issue, but I'm happy to use a toll road if it saves me significant time. It would be nice if I could set a threshold to say "only use toll roads if it'll save me X minutes," or something similar.
Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by pwinnski on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:42PM (#16767762)
I don't necessarily want to avoid all tolls. I want to avoid a toll plaza that costs 50 cents to save me a single traffic light.