Got lost with my xl-s

[feejo]

Really not lucky, I got a night vision: Green, tought it would be cool. Had a hard time to see when I had to go, at a certain point the GPS got mad at me or something, he wanted me to go back on the highway, no way. I knew a little when I was going, he asked me to take one exit BEFORE the shortest one, I catch alot of lights from that. Then I continue, and he ask me to turn right, then right, then right... Hey I already went here. I look the screen, the route was changed to a square. I stop the car, restart the search. Then he was there.

I don't know if I will continue with Tom Tom, seriously.

 

[dhn]

Really not lucky, I got a night vision: Green, tought it would be cool. Had a hard time to see when I had to go, at a certain point the GPS got mad at me or something, he wanted me to go back on the highway, no way. I knew a little when I was going, he asked me to take one exit BEFORE the shortest one, I catch alot of lights from that. Then I continue, and he ask me to turn right, then right, then right... Hey I already went here. I look the screen, the route was changed to a square. I stop the car, restart the search. Then he was there.

I don't know if I will continue with Tom Tom, seriously.

No GPS, TomTom or other brand, is a substitute for local knowledge. The real issue is whether a unit can get someone from point A to B in an area that is new to the driver.

 

[flyer1024]

so if you're using it in your home town, it doesn't have to work correctly?

the above sounds like the dreaded no left turn syndrome. My one does that in a couple of places, taking me to the right around the block only to eventually let me go left where it should have in the first place.

 

[dhn]

so if you're using it in your home town, it doesn't have to work correctly?

the above sounds like the dreaded no left turn syndrome. My one does that in a couple of places, taking me to the right around the block only to eventually let me go left where it should have in the first place.

Well, it depends upon the size of your home town, doesn't it? I've lived in Toronto all my life, driven a cab (many years ago) during my college days and there are still large areas of the GTA where I may as well be on the moon for all the driving I've done there. A reliable GPS unit would be necessary.

OTOH, in a smaller town, even if the roads were mapped, I'd suspect a TomTom unit would rarely, if ever, suggest a better route than a user who already knows the road system.

 

[flyer1024]

yesterday I drove my wife into Halifax. don't spend much time there now, but I have spent many years driving around that city before retiring.

Driving in familiar conditions is often using a route you're accustomed to and not always the shortest or fastest route.

I've been letting the one have it's way and yesterday it took me on streets I'd not have used. Set for shorter route, it indeed finds the shorter route, but not the familiar route I'd used many times before.

Just what I'd expect it to do. If all the usable streets are on the map correctly (which is sometimes not the case) I'd expect the gps to do it's job.

Since I started using the north american map and the larger poi files it's been doing that most of the time and I'm liking it a lot more. almost gave up on it when I first got it.

 

[feejo]

I really enjoy my tom when it is off the car: I can costumize things, I like the share map. When I was going too fast yeasterday he was telling me by a horn sound, liked it. Voice street where hard to understand. But I am not sure, there was missing adress this week, another place he make me go left 1km away, I don't know why he din't take straith at the light.

 

[a1rodger]

funny story

Standing at my house, I told it I wanted to go home. It sent me around the block.