Weird Maps Behavior - Taking me a Longer Route

[southerncadesi]

There is a setting that allows you to set how much range you want at your destination. If your arrival range is lower than that setting it will always try to route you to a charger to juice up so you can meet that minimum arrival range.

That’s what it sounds like to me.

Yes but even with those settings you can go into the navigation and remove the charging stops.

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[LR4toR1S]

I just can’t imagine a situation where anyone would rather get to their location 30 minutes slower to end with an extra 5 miles of range when both ranges were above 10 miles.

My planned trip to TN from Denver is 4 hours longer using the RIVIAN maps. ABRP and PLUGShare have it at 17 driving 20 with charging stops. RIVIAN 24.6 hours. I would love to see how the new mas calculate it, but i've not received the update yet.

 

[The Beast]

I went on about a 6 hour road trip (total time, not travel time, it was probably 350 miles or so). The last hour and a half stretch of my trip is a route I take all the time so I didn't need the GPS but kept it on so I could see how many miles I'd end home with (I was cutting it close).

This last stretch of my trip is almost all highway miles. Basically the same highway, then I live like 10 miles off the highway on back roads. For whatever reason, my GPS kept trying to take me off the highway sooner than the exit by my house. It tried taking me off 3 different exits. Each time when I ignored it, it took about 10 minutes off my drive. After the last time it did it, my ETA was quite literally 30 minutes quicker than the first route it tried to take me. Anyone know why that could be? I'm wondering how much of the other portion of the trip where I wasn't familiar also took me a longer route.

The only thing I could possibly think of is that I was pretty low on mileage. My ending mileage on the route the GPS first recommended was like 21 miles, but staying on the highway on my route got me home at like 14 miles - really not a huge difference and not nearly close enough to 0 either way.

 

[The Beast]

We went on a 30 minute drive today to have lunch. The navigation routed me on a side road presumably to save time when I was very near our destination. I quickly found out that this road was backed up for at least a half of a mile with no warning on the navigation app. When I finally got up to the "problem" area, I did what others were doing and made a U-turn and went back the way I was initially going to travel. There was a large trailer completely blocking the road and the only way we moved for the 15 minutes or so that it took to get to where we could see it was because the drivers ahead of us were making U-turns to backtrack and leave that road. I really wish the navigation app would have done a better job of updating this issue, but it didn't. I had just told my wife that the new Google map would "do the right thing" and get us there without trouble!!!

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