Good morning all:
I wonder if anyone has any ideas concerning the following situation.
Last night before leaving home, I created an automatic route from my
home in Silver Spring, MD to downtown Washington, DC (about 6 miles).
The cab driver took an alternate route (probably more direct than the
automatic route which the software created). I had good coverage with 8
satellites in view.
The software tried to recalculate the route a couple of times, but the
result was very unsatisfactory. Although my actual position was
announced, the system also announced how far away I was from the
waypoints contained in my pre-defined route. This was very confusing,
and I finally exited the program and reopened it in order to hear only
my position in real-time. How does the vehicle route recalculation
feature work? I would have thought that as soon as a off-route status
was detected, the system would have recalculated a new route with my
current gPS position as the starting point and would ignore the
previously defined route as no longer relevant.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Scott
Scott Marshall
Designated Federal Officer
Consumer Advisory committee
Federal communications commission
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