Google Maps Navigation not choosing quickest route?

tigerstyle · 6 Jun 2014 at 10:28

I'll be driving along with Nottingham>Bedford as my journey. I'm 20% through the journey and it says 1:10 as my ETA then at the next glance down it'll say 1:18 as the ETA, but it hasn't prompted me to do anything, and the bar is still showing as green (no traffic) and when I drive past the motorway exit I would have taken it has this little grey box I can see that says '8 Mins faster'

Usually these come up as 'slower' but super genuinely I have seen a few come up as faster recently? What is up with that?

It's caught me out a few times now. Only happened in the last month. I'm pretty sure I've reset the cache of the app in that time but I'll try it again.

tigerstyle · 6 Jun 2014 at 13:02

Is that only recently Amos?
Like the last month or so, probably the same time they added the eta function I think.

tigerstyle · 6 Jun 2014 at 15:36

Looks like this issue needs a bit more googling when I'm home then.
I've had would you like to accept new route pop up too, shouldn't be that automatic anyway, this borked issue aside.

tigerstyle · 8 Jun 2014 at 21:20

I've had it crash a few times, which I don't mind as at least I can reset the thing. But to appear to be working fine but at the same time sending me all over the country? Bonkers!

_Jimlad_ said:
You need to use is as a guide. Sat navs have never been 100%

Understood of course, but before this Google Maps has genuinely been 99% great, never rerouting in stupid ways or sending me up the side of a mountain/off a cliff as per the normal satnav horror stories.

tigerstyle · 12 Jun 2014 at 21:26

Whats the actual cost of Route66?

tigerstyle · 13 Jun 2014 at 10:01

Last option sounds good should Google Nav not get better quicker, and the speed camera info would be nice too....