May I live in Garmin’s world, pleeeease?
I live in a suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA. Unfortunately, Garmin’s GPS receivers are designed for a parallel-universe-version of this city called Los-Angeles-With-No-Red-Lights. This is why their GPS receivers have me get off the 60 freeway in Pico Rivera when I’m going to San Gabriel, and why my journey through the surface streets of downtown-but-not-so-beautiful-no-matter-what-Leno-says Burbank this afternoon, ostensibly to avoid a traffic jam, ended up taking six minutes longer than estimated. I understand not finding optimal solutions, even to the point of my ignoring directions and taking time off the estimated arrival — TSP is, of course, NP-complete — but not weighting surface streets with delays from traffic lights (or woefully underestimating, which equates to the same thing)? Really inexcusable.
Maybe our red lights just suck here.
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March 18th, 2009 at 08h52
I wouldn’t forgive it for taking me to fucking Burbank, traffic lights or not.
October 18th, 2009 at 00h36
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