We have an onboard navigation system in my wife’s car. With the insane things that system “suggests” we do, this is not a practical solution. In a video game (not real world) this is possible. In the real world, it will be a long time coming if ever.
Educated Idiots can imagine amazing stuff, but when it comes to implementing theory goes out the window and what works, works.
I’m still convinced the simplest possible solution is still the best. (Einstein made a statement about that)
Motives on auto navigation systems? Did you ever use it to find a restaurant? Give it an address, it will often get you there. Those who pay to have their restaurant name in the system are seldom the places you actually want to eat.
A lot of this technology is meant to add to the monster of tracking our every action.
I won’t go back to horse and buggy, but I still hate computers in cars. Far too complex, and next to impossible to “fix” when broken.
We once bought a disposable car. It had 2,000 miles on it when my wife and I bought it. It was a Saturn VUE. At just over 100,000 miles the CVT transmission failed. Cost of repair was quoted at $4,500. There are repair kits, no new trans available. Car company closed. We were basically excluded from the settlement in the class action lawsuit over this problem, we did not buy it new (it had 2,000 miles on it when we bought it.)
It has been setting parked at our farm for 8+ years.
Never another Government Motor car for me. Not going there again.
My parents used to take as many secondary highways as they could while “snowbirding” in their motorhome so they could see the real country. Every time the TomTom was turned on, it would do its darndest to get them onto the nearest interstate, even if going from one small town to another neither of which was on said interstate.
I live in a rural area, I agree the data bases on some of these nav systems are weak. It is a tourist area and I have talked to numerous people visiting who blindly follow their system .
I recall one person who ended up in the middle of a wilderness area.
I tell them to talk to a local, the shortest way may not be the best. A longer decent road far outweighs a shorter crappie road.
Donate it to a votech program.