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Posted by Figaro on January 25, 2011, 4:58 pm
I recently heard a news story about UPS programming their trucks' GPS
to make only left turns to save fuel costs. (http://abcnews.go.com/
WNT/story?id=3005890&page=1)

Is there a way to do the same on our Garmin consumer units as well?
Just curious... 8^)


Figaro

Posted by willshak on January 25, 2011, 6:10 pm
Figaro wrote the following:
> I recently heard a news story about UPS programming their trucks' GPS
> to make only left turns to save fuel costs. (http://abcnews.go.com/
> WNT/story?id=3005890&page=1)
> Is there a way to do the same on our Garmin consumer units as well?
> Just curious... 8^)
> Figaro
>

Your hearing must be wrong. It is left turns that they are trying to
reduce.

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Posted by Peter H. Coffin on January 25, 2011, 9:11 pm
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:10:00 -0500, willshak wrote:
> Figaro wrote the following:
>> I recently heard a news story about UPS programming their trucks' GPS
>> to make only left turns to save fuel costs. (http://abcnews.go.com/
>> WNT/story?id=3005890&page=1)
>> Is there a way to do the same on our Garmin consumer units as well?
>> Just curious... 8^)
>> Figaro
>>
> Your hearing must be wrong. It is left turns that they are trying to
> reduce.

And, as far as I can tell, the Garmin units already have a bias toward
near-side turns.

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instead of standing around waiting while members break off and
attack one or two at a time.
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Posted by Dave on January 26, 2011, 1:40 pm
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:11:42 -0600, Peter H. Coffin wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:10:00 -0500, willshak wrote:
>> Figaro wrote the following:
>>> I recently heard a news story about UPS programming their trucks' GPS
>>> to make only left turns to save fuel costs. (http://abcnews.go.com/
>>> WNT/story?id=3005890&page=1)
>>> Is there a way to do the same on our Garmin consumer units as well?
>>> Just curious... 8^)
>>> Figaro
>>>
>>>
>> Your hearing must be wrong. It is left turns that they are trying to
>> reduce.
>
> And, as far as I can tell, the Garmin units already have a bias toward
> near-side turns.

Especially if you set it to avoid U turns.

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