How do I train my Nuvi?

 

I live up on a hill, and the road leading to it is a big circle. When I leave home, I guess the route my GPS wants me to take, it must think is the shortest and the fastest. Perhaps it is indeed by 1/20th of a mile.
However, I prefer taking the other way. Instead of hanging a right to go downhill, I prefer taking left to go downhill.
Is there any way to make my GPS not insist on doing things its way, and have my way as the default.
Other than 'recalculating' every time.

TIA

Don't think so

ZedRight wrote:

Is there any way to make my GPS not insist on doing things its way, and have my way as the default.
Other than 'recalculating' every time.

TIA

I have a similar problem. I would guess that the algorithm used in the programming can't be changed manually. I usually "mute the GPS" when I know it wants to take a different route than I want to take. The human brain can use various forms of logic. If the GPS has only one form of logic programmed into the unit - you are stuck with that "mind set" (so to speak).

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Consecon wrote:

I would guess that the algorithm used in the programming can't be changed manually.

The algorithm seems to dislike left turns...my first 350, then 660, and now 750 seems to go out of their way to avoid left turns at times, and arriving at destinations on the left as well. Nature of the beast...in the end, do what makes sense to you, and ignore the 'recalculating'...

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Understood.

kch50428 wrote:
Consecon wrote:

I would guess that the algorithm used in the programming can't be changed manually.

The algorithm seems to dislike left turns...my first 350, then 660, and now 750 seems to go out of their way to avoid left turns at times, and arriving at destinations on the left as well. Nature of the beast...in the end, do what makes sense to you, and ignore the 'recalculating'...

The loop is about a 10 mile circle, and my route and the the GPS route ends up at the same outlet. However I prefer my route because there is a small street leading to another direction to town in case the phone rings and I have to change my plans.

You can't train it. It

You can't train it. It doesn't have neural Terminator type technology. smile

Mine has never exhibited a propensity for avoiding left turns. The only avoidance I have normally checked is traffic, which I don't even use. Occasionally, I'll "avoid highways" to take a more scenic route, but I've never experienced any dislike for left turns with either my Nüvi or Street Pilot.

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Newest to oldest... Nüvi 660, Street Pilot 2720, Magellan SporTrak Pro, Lowrance Global Map 100

Routing

I suppose if you have routing you could choose a second destination in the direction you want to go.
I used to do that to Google to "customize"

There might be some low-priority coding for that

buffettck wrote:

Mine has never exhibited a propensity for avoiding left turns.

I think there is some coding in there for that. It just doesn't seem like it's a very high priority. I can't say I've noticed any real propensity for right turns, either, although I have read that there was.

Just recently though, I thought it did that. I had to run out from work to pick something up at a store. Think of a perfect square, with the store at the upper left corner and my office at the lower right corner. Same distance and "difficulty" no matter if I went North and then West, or went West and then North. Nuvi sent me West and then North. On the return trip back to the office, it sent me East and then South instead of the same way that I had just come. All right turns all the way.

Doesn't prove anything of course. Otherwise, I really can't say I've seen it pick anything that was odd, but right-turn-centric.

Detour

Have you tried to do a detour on it.

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Jerry...Jacksonville,Fl Nüvi1450,Nuvi650,Nuvi 2495 and Mapsource.

Just wait

Wait until you get to the bottom of the hill before you plug in you destination.

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doesn't like left turns

my 550 doesn't like left turns out of my area either.

I turn down the volume until we are both on the same page.

For just driving to work or stores etc, I don't select any routes. I basically keep the unit on for the traffic and Just in case I need to use a detour.

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Detour works

adcusnret wrote:

Have you tried to do a detour on it.

But then I have to do it every morning. Can I save my detour as the default route?

Thats what I have been doing.

gregb882 wrote:

Wait until you get to the bottom of the hill before you plug in you destination.

Although the recalculating does not bother me.
I have turned off prompts and voice, and only use the tone and it is not a bother. I use the GPS voice mainly for the bluetooth.

A GPS is like asking the idiot on the corner how to get there.

The GPS isn't perfect and you will get the "Well that isn't the way I would go" from everybody, if only they took our best route. Did you try changing shorter or fastest route options?

Avoiding left turns

I read on another site that Garmin does have avoidance of left turns built into its algorithm. After only one day's use, I can see that to be the case. I too have a "favorite" route approaching my neighborhood, but Garmin goes out of its way to take me another way that is only right turns. I tucked in a "via point" on my 750 along the preferred route and was able to force it to go my way.

Avoiding Right Turns

AtlantaDave wrote:

I read on another site that Garmin does have avoidance of left turns built into its algorithm. After only one day's use, I can see that to be the case.

I can't say that I've noticed the opposite effect at work here in the UK (where of course, it's right turns that you might want to avoid).

If this algorithm exists, I wonder what it would be based on, given that the City Navigator Europe Mapset covers both LHD and RHD areas?

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new 350 user

I've only had my unit a few weeks, but my first time out with it, it had me turn right only to do a u-turn 50 feet later! I have u-turn avoidances turned on. Wouldn't a left turn be safter than a u-turn?!

u turn or left turn

I read a story once...an email story so many of you probably read it too. It had something to do with making only right hand turns. Something about an elderly man got to be elderly by making only right hand turns. Wish I could remember the whole story.

I tried to search for it but found some interesting items....

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=13281

such as this and

http://www.thetaoofmakingmoney.com/2007/04/04/311.html

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........Garmin StreetPilot c550 / Nüvi 765...........

Only Right Turns

I can't say that I notice this much, but it makes sense that it would avoid left turns if possible as you can usually make a right turn quicker than crossing traffic to make a left one.

Only Rights

My aunt in her late 80's won't make lefts because of the crossing traffic.
"less chance of getting t-boned going thru an intersection than turning left w/oncoming traffic"
She was hit once and is a little gun shy.

Maybe south of the equator it has you make lefts?

"Pink Elephants!" ü

But seriously maybe in England --- lefts?

U-turn avoidance

angellic71 wrote:

I've only had my unit a few weeks, but my first time out with it, it had me turn right only to do a u-turn 50 feet later! I have u-turn avoidances turned on. Wouldn't a left turn be safter than a u-turn?!

The first time I made a short trip to try out my new 260, it wanted me to take a left out of my neighborhood when a right was clearly the shortest and fastest route. If I had followed the GPS, I'd have taken that first left, then 3 rights, 3/4 of the way around a "block" that's a mile on a side. By turning right I cut the drive in half, and I found out why it wanted me to take the scenic route. Because the address I was going to was in a strip mall, the mapping didn't show the driveway into the parking lot, thus it thought I needed to make a U-turn to get across the median because the store was on the left side of the street. With U-turn avoidance on, it plotted a route that was more than 2 miles longer just to keep from making that U-turn.

Rick

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Rick - Nüvi 260 - eTrex Summit HC