Road closed warning totally bogus
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:47 pm
Just back from a 2800-mile ride and the XT performed very well, with only a few exceptions. Despite the excellent fixes for RUT syndrome discovered by the smart folks here, once in a great while it would still insist on routing me back to a skipped waypoint using up to three RUTs. And answering Yes or No to a recalc request when I go off route to get gas or eat lunch produces inconsistent results -- differing behavior that makes it impossible to decide if No or Yes is the best answer to preserve the pre-planned route.
I also have not figured out what is supposed to happen to pre-planned routes that are running when you break for lunch. If you let the screen time out, when you wake it back up, all seems well. If you do a short press to put it to sleep, it may stop navigating the route or wake up acting like you skipped a shaping point (but recover once you are on the purple stripe). Power it all the way off and the route is no longer active.
But these are minor compared to one I encountered on the way home. I was riding on Route I-84 in Connecticut, which is a major Interstate limited access highway. All of a sudden the XT displayed a red banner and warned that "vehicles are not allowed on this road." Tell that to the dozens of cars and trucks around me all going at least 75 mph. There was no construction, parallel road, or other obvious reason for confusion about the road being closed. It was damn hard to get rid of the warning, and important to do so, because it froze the screen until I quit out of the route and reloaded it.
Other than those quirks, I found the traffic and weather features quite useful and most of the navigation to be reliable.
-dan
I also have not figured out what is supposed to happen to pre-planned routes that are running when you break for lunch. If you let the screen time out, when you wake it back up, all seems well. If you do a short press to put it to sleep, it may stop navigating the route or wake up acting like you skipped a shaping point (but recover once you are on the purple stripe). Power it all the way off and the route is no longer active.
But these are minor compared to one I encountered on the way home. I was riding on Route I-84 in Connecticut, which is a major Interstate limited access highway. All of a sudden the XT displayed a red banner and warned that "vehicles are not allowed on this road." Tell that to the dozens of cars and trucks around me all going at least 75 mph. There was no construction, parallel road, or other obvious reason for confusion about the road being closed. It was damn hard to get rid of the warning, and important to do so, because it froze the screen until I quit out of the route and reloaded it.
Other than those quirks, I found the traffic and weather features quite useful and most of the navigation to be reliable.
-dan