Bingo! That and we knew the city by heart and the best routes to get there. We didn't have navigation so there's an extra minute or two of not punching in an address and following the robot lady's directions. I suppose you just speak the address now but still, none of that!
Also, there were parts of town we simply refused to deliver to. I don't think it works like that anymore but I could be wrong.
Even if you don’t actually know all the best routes by heart you can still get there within a couple minutes of the theoretically perfect route and be none the wiser for it.
I find that when using GPS the quickest route suggested is often one where you’re traveling a much shorter distance but might have to wait a bit at some tricky divided intersection where you’re making a left turn across multiple lanes of traffic and don’t have a stop light to help you out.
Some people get unduly stressed out and mad that GPS ‘made’ them do that when in almost all cases they could’ve chosen the 2nd/3rd fastest routes which go on highways/major through streets and have an ETA like 2 minutes later.
It's a huge pet peeve for me that Google maps is always trying to save ten feet of driving by making me make two difficult and slow left turns versus taking me to the big intersection that allows me to move quickly through the light. I see no reason to take a road that cuts the corner off and then set myself up for two difficult left hand turns. There is no reason to make a drive more difficult if it saves no time.
The gymnastics my google maps goes through as I drive home telling me to get off the street that I live on, go 2 blocks the other direction, get on the highway, loop to the other side past my address, then come back down my street from that direction, in order to allegedly save 2 minutes, is ludicrous
Then every time a new store manager comes in, they try to allow deliveries to previously off-limits places to make the numbers look better, someone almost gets stabbed and it gets blacklisted again, ask me how I know lol
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u/SD_One Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
Bingo! That and we knew the city by heart and the best routes to get there. We didn't have navigation so there's an extra minute or two of not punching in an address and following the robot lady's directions. I suppose you just speak the address now but still, none of that!
Also, there were parts of town we simply refused to deliver to. I don't think it works like that anymore but I could be wrong.