Man. I have basically never seriously wanted a car, until you mentioned being able to visit the store on a whim. I have to make do without soy milk until Sunday, unless I feel like scheduling time for it.. :X
I can't speak to how your navigation system is going to work, but it's worth mentioning that my parents had something similar with their standalone GPS at first -- it turns out, there was a setting, "avoid main roads", which defaults to 'on'. (I guess it was designed with cities with serious traffic problems in mind?)
When you gave that Google Maps link as an example of the worst that roads could be, for a moment I was dismissive when I saw it, at how small it all was.... but oh my gosh, how do you actually NAVIGATE something like that?? And is there seriously no simpler way that it could have been designed?
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Date: 2011-04-16 02:33 am (UTC)I can't speak to how your navigation system is going to work, but it's worth mentioning that my parents had something similar with their standalone GPS at first -- it turns out, there was a setting, "avoid main roads", which defaults to 'on'. (I guess it was designed with cities with serious traffic problems in mind?)
When you gave that Google Maps link as an example of the worst that roads could be, for a moment I was dismissive when I saw it, at how small it all was.... but oh my gosh, how do you actually NAVIGATE something like that?? And is there seriously no simpler way that it could have been designed?