this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
284 points (98.3% liked)

Asklemmy

43881 readers
805 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

My dad uses Google Maps, and he mentioned that it seems to be getting worse. Like, giving him directions that are obviously worse than alternatives. Has anyone else here experienced this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (13 children)

There's an option to prefer fuel saving routes, which are worse most of the time. This was a kinda recent chance and it is enabled by default, try to disable it and see if it helps

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It does indicate the "fuel efficient" route pretty clearly though, and always gives multiple other options including the quickest one that isn't as efficient. If this is what's causing the issue, OP just needs to look closer at what's on their screen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

needs to look closer at what's on their screen

IT guy here. The number of tickets I could close with this as the root cause.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Honestly I wish you were able to. Some of these people have no excuse to be as ill proficient as they are, and maybe that would change if you could just tell them they 'read mother fucker' and let nature take it's course.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You expect me to READ!? The audacity! ๐Ÿ˜ค

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (9 replies)