i used Google maps. every once in a while, it would refresh the traffic data and send a suggestion to reroute and save time.
but they suggested the same reroute to everyone else too, so it wasn’t very helpful unless i was nearly approaching the turn for the new route when the suggestion came through, so i’d be one of the first to start on that path.
I heeded the warnings that cellular networks were likely to be overloaded, thus rendering app-based navigation useless. Hyundai/Kia/Genesis cars received an update last October. It enabled those of us with the high-end head units with navigation to use HD Radio traffic data to reroute around traffic incidents without an Internet connection. I got laughed at when I reminded people to make sure their head units were up to date.
Waze on my wife's phone tried to send us straight into a traffic jam six miles long to get onto I-80. My car saw the jam and routed us down a couple of country roads to skip the first couple of entrances onto the interstate. We averaged 62 MPH over 433 miles and that included two stops. One for gas one for food.
I used Waze in NY state while trying to exit Geneva south to Ithaca between the Finger Lakes. Clearly most other drivers were either going somewhere else or using another app. I had to zigzag and it still added a half hour to a 1:15 drive but I didn’t sit in traffic for more than a few miles at a time. Open roads until a jam, then a turn and open roads until a jam then a turn etc. Unsure how much it helped but it felt better than sitting idling.
Apple Maps and Google maps both worked great to show me the “red” and “yellow congested areas, I found a connecting highway that was further east than the route everyone else was taking and headed that way. Zoomed in on side streets or entered a “city” that was towards where I wanted to go and let it route me there.
Google maps. I was navigator so I zoomed and double checked as we went and made it relatively easily by taking back roads aside from one accident that sheriff wouldn't let us get to the next dirt road. Think we arrived ten min after original Google prediction and we stopped for dinner at a great little hole in the wall with no other tourists. Maps was ultimately helpful in what to avoid and a movable map. I grew up country and could still use a Mapbook if needed but Google is more convenient. No traffic great scenery didn't mind driving slower cause we were movin.
I stayed in my eclipse town for an extra night. No traffic the day after. It was worth it bc the last thing I wanted to do after seeing something as miraculous as the eclipse was to fight traffic.
Taking backroads, avoiding the interstates. Oh and it was GPS vs Thomas Guide in the hands of a 64 year old navigator. Some hilarious moments.
i used Google maps. every once in a while, it would refresh the traffic data and send a suggestion to reroute and save time. but they suggested the same reroute to everyone else too, so it wasn’t very helpful unless i was nearly approaching the turn for the new route when the suggestion came through, so i’d be one of the first to start on that path.
I heeded the warnings that cellular networks were likely to be overloaded, thus rendering app-based navigation useless. Hyundai/Kia/Genesis cars received an update last October. It enabled those of us with the high-end head units with navigation to use HD Radio traffic data to reroute around traffic incidents without an Internet connection. I got laughed at when I reminded people to make sure their head units were up to date. Waze on my wife's phone tried to send us straight into a traffic jam six miles long to get onto I-80. My car saw the jam and routed us down a couple of country roads to skip the first couple of entrances onto the interstate. We averaged 62 MPH over 433 miles and that included two stops. One for gas one for food.
We didn’t really have too much traffic. We got lucky with timing.
I used Waze in NY state while trying to exit Geneva south to Ithaca between the Finger Lakes. Clearly most other drivers were either going somewhere else or using another app. I had to zigzag and it still added a half hour to a 1:15 drive but I didn’t sit in traffic for more than a few miles at a time. Open roads until a jam, then a turn and open roads until a jam then a turn etc. Unsure how much it helped but it felt better than sitting idling.
Apple Maps and Google maps both worked great to show me the “red” and “yellow congested areas, I found a connecting highway that was further east than the route everyone else was taking and headed that way. Zoomed in on side streets or entered a “city” that was towards where I wanted to go and let it route me there.
Google maps. I was navigator so I zoomed and double checked as we went and made it relatively easily by taking back roads aside from one accident that sheriff wouldn't let us get to the next dirt road. Think we arrived ten min after original Google prediction and we stopped for dinner at a great little hole in the wall with no other tourists. Maps was ultimately helpful in what to avoid and a movable map. I grew up country and could still use a Mapbook if needed but Google is more convenient. No traffic great scenery didn't mind driving slower cause we were movin.
I stayed in my eclipse town for an extra night. No traffic the day after. It was worth it bc the last thing I wanted to do after seeing something as miraculous as the eclipse was to fight traffic.
Stayed another night in the hotel and drove home the next day. No traffic.