Another TomTom stupidity

I decided to play around with my TomTom again. Changing it to
"fastest route" instead of "shortest route", did help eliminate it
from telling me to take every country back gravel road and/or minor
city street. However, it did not completely eliminate the problem,
just minimized it.

But here's a new quirk.
I went to a big city last week. I'm travelling down a major freeway,
and I accidentally hit something on the TomTom making it think I
wanted to go back home. (Ok, that was probably my fault). But here's
what really annoyed me. The TomTom kept telling me to make a U-Turn
on those "U-turn" things between the East and West lanes, which are
clearly marked "NO U TURN". I dont know if these are the same all
over the country, but in the state where I was, those things are only
there to be used by emergency vehicles (police, fire, ambulance, etc).
If I was to use one of them, I'd be pulled over by the police and get
ticketed. Yet, the TomTom clearly showed each one of them in a
visual, as well as saying "turn left after 500 yards", and when I was
right at the spot, it would say "make a u-turn now".

I wonder how many people actually follow those illegal instructions
and get ticketed?????

Mark

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:25:15 -0500, markwalter@no-spam.com wrote:


I've been using TomToms since their first PND six years ago and none has
ever said make a "U-Turn" at any point in any journey, so I find your story
hard to accept. Does anyone else claim to have used some model or version
of TomTom that ever issues "U-Turn" instructions?

Tony

Yeah
I use a tomtom one xl and if I ignore a command to turn off the road it
will sometimes say " do a u turn now " or "turn around when possible"
Regards

It says both of them at different time or one but you don't remember which?

Tony

Yes all the time if I'm going in the wrong direction, and it wants me to
turn around ASAP. But as with anything in life, you exercise a little common
sense.
--
JK Sinrod
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com