REAL times of arrival!

Nigel42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 51

Hi

After spending every day, hour after hour, driving in the london traffic at the regulation 11mph, I am always kept cheerful buy the outrageous estimates TT gives for the arrival time!
Sometimes it takes 15 minutes to move 1/2 a mile in someparts but TT states 2 min! ha ha

Is there any way of getting real?

Thanks Wink

ixion · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 44

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

Or you could turn off the Arrival Time in Status Bar preferences. Wink

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technik · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject:

Ride a bicycle. Laughing

Nigel42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 51

Thanks, They were useful Laughing

DennisN · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject:

Mount it on one of these and try again? Cool

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Andy_P · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject:

SatNavs are DUMB. They have very small brains.
All they have is a list of road types and a default speed for each of them. They add up the bits of each type on your route and give you a figure.
They have no idea about individual conditions on a particular road.
If you drove the route at 4am it would probably be quite accurate, but to do any better in congested periods, it would need an entire look-up table for every road in the country with different speeds for time of day, day of the week etc. and present generation machines are just not clever enough.

Real-time updates like "Traffic" are the only way to go, but are obviously in their infancy so far.

DennisN · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject:

So why does TomTom ask your permission to collect, anonymously, data about time taken etc when you plug in?
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Andy_P · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject:

Does it?
I remember it asking to collect data about SOMETHING, but I said "no thank you" VERY firmly, so haven't seen it since.

Makes sense to use collected data to adjust time taken on certain roads, but I maintain that present day TomToms and the like can't use it and the OP was asking if there was anything HE could do to adjust it, which he can't.

DennisN · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

TomTom Home ... Preferences ... Sharing Preferences - Enable collection of anonymous usage statistics.

Yeah, right - I also said NO of course. But it's almost a startup default setting, so if you're a sweet innocent young thing, you're likely to agree to it.
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If it tastes good - it's fattening.

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dhn · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:59 am Post subject:

I believe I can confirm that, indeed, the collection request is the default. I just had reason to restore to factory settings; sure enough, first time I conneccted to TTHome, got asked to share anonymous data ... again.

Like you, I declined.

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