12-23-2013, 11:15 AM
Mileage: 44,550
Maps took three days to update, and I had to re-burn Disc 3 because the first disc wasn't being recognized in the car. Anyway, now the car knows where Guapos in Fair Lakes is. Score.
Drove to the Cobetto's yesterday for their annual Christmas party. Decided to see how iDrive Maps would work for the drive. I didn't want to take 95 South because Google Maps had already told me it was a parking lot. The car does receive traffic alerts, so it should re-route you. And even if the first route is not correct and you drive the way you know you should go, it should recalculate, right?
It... well, it spent the first hour of the drive (as I went down 29 and 17 to bypass 95 traffic) trying to have me make a U-turn at every stop light and every exit ramp. At one point, the highlighted route looked like an ampersand. Finally, when I got a few miles down 17, it figured out "oh, you can go up here 20 miles and hop on 95, yeah, do that."
Stupid car
Maps took three days to update, and I had to re-burn Disc 3 because the first disc wasn't being recognized in the car. Anyway, now the car knows where Guapos in Fair Lakes is. Score.
Drove to the Cobetto's yesterday for their annual Christmas party. Decided to see how iDrive Maps would work for the drive. I didn't want to take 95 South because Google Maps had already told me it was a parking lot. The car does receive traffic alerts, so it should re-route you. And even if the first route is not correct and you drive the way you know you should go, it should recalculate, right?
It... well, it spent the first hour of the drive (as I went down 29 and 17 to bypass 95 traffic) trying to have me make a U-turn at every stop light and every exit ramp. At one point, the highlighted route looked like an ampersand. Finally, when I got a few miles down 17, it figured out "oh, you can go up here 20 miles and hop on 95, yeah, do that."
Stupid car
Now:
'16 Ram 1500 | '97 BMW M3 | Some Press Loan
Then:
87 BMW 325e | 91 BMW 535i | 96 BMW 328i | 95 BMW 325i | 95 Mazda Miata | 13 Focus ST | 09 BMW 128i | 00 Pontiac Firebird | 05 Yukon Denali | 96 BMW 328iC | 11 Ford F-150 | 06 BMW M3 | 10 Range Rover SC | '03 Ford Ranger | '18 Ford F-150 | '01 BMW X5 | '98 Volvo S70 T5M
'16 Ram 1500 | '97 BMW M3 | Some Press Loan
Then:
87 BMW 325e | 91 BMW 535i | 96 BMW 328i | 95 BMW 325i | 95 Mazda Miata | 13 Focus ST | 09 BMW 128i | 00 Pontiac Firebird | 05 Yukon Denali | 96 BMW 328iC | 11 Ford F-150 | 06 BMW M3 | 10 Range Rover SC | '03 Ford Ranger | '18 Ford F-150 | '01 BMW X5 | '98 Volvo S70 T5M