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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject: Avoid road - and ignore the driver
Folks, is it me or does CP7 ignore you when you tell it to avoid a road?
I was trying get out of the middle of Birmingham, UK, late at night a couple of weeks ago and CP routed me up the A38 Aston Expressway. When I got to the Expressway it was closed so I carried on round the roundabout and off at the first exit and punched into CP to recalculate avoiding the Aston Expressway. Job done I thought until after 5 minutes of following CPs directions I find myself back at the same roundabout and being directed back onto the Expressway again.
I thought I'd done something wrong so told CP to recalculate avoiding the Expressway again and off I went again following the directions. After another few minutes I thought "Oh, I recognise that clock tower, oh, and that layby", so I stopped and checked the route and lowe and behold there it was again - the A38 Aston Expressway from the exact same roundabout!!
While stopped I cleared the route and reprogrammed CP to route me home avoiding the Expressway - all good I thought. I noticed that CP was now placing me on the opposite side of the dual carriageway I was on but I didn't wory as I knew it would sort itself out once we started moving and sure it did, recalculated and everthing. Jobsagoodun, I thought, I'm finally on my way home.
Duely following the directions I was suddenly aghast to find myself back at that same roundabout and being directed back onto the Expressway again!!!
I had to give up at that point and took myself back into the middle of Birmingham to pick up the roadsigns for the A45 towards Coventry as it was the only other way out of Birmingham towards home I was remotely familiar with.
Has anyone else encountered a similar problem with CP7 persistently ignoring them when telling it to avoid a road?
I also encountered the age old motorway junction problem on the way home too - first time for that one!
I had a similar issue with CP8. I think the problem may come where the same road features in several legs of the route. I was recently trying to avoid the A33, and because my route on it was broken into several bits (many roundabouts to cross) it took several goes cancelling different bits of the A33 before it got the idea...
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