TomTom to get even better?

[RichardM]

I remember the early TomTom interface used to let you set speeds for different types of road. For some reason they dropped this feature!

 

[HughJarse]

That is a problem I've found with TomTom, it has too strong a preference for Motorways (and probably didn't consider the A1 a motorway). The same for my journey home from work, it would rather take me on the longer journey via the conjected M25 rather than keeping to shorter distance via fast national speed limit dual carriage ways

The new TOMTOM has features that avoids busy roads at peak time and uses them more at non peak times.
TBH I have no experience of this but it sounds good. I have comand, its crackin to glance at and see where I should turn in a busy housing estate.
However I also have TOMTOM 920T and this unlike comand is crackin when I go to Spain - pick up my hire car and drive on unknown roads.
Horses for courses.

 

[Dragon]

It useful to look for a place you haven't been before.

But then there are flaws. It still give me a warning about the toll at Forth Road bridge which is toll free since Jan 08 even though I updated my maps.

I looked up their website, my unit already out of date, there is version 4 TT Regional. It an expensive toy at £145 or £160 elsewhere that fades in a couple of months unless it got nicked. It would be nice to be incorporated in Comand location but then Comand is even worse. In my opinion, the technology is still in the early stages compare with the inbuilt radio and CD player.

Wonder what the Sat Nav like in Lexus or Vauxhall cars.

 

[robert.saunders]

I bought a TT One XL at Asda for £145. To cover a journey between Ipswich and Dundee, it routed A14, M6, M74, A80, A9 and A90 a total of 522 miles taking 8 hours 39 mins.

Without navigation, I used A14, A1, A66, M74, A80, A9 and A90 a total of 470 miles and it takes 8 hours.

Did I make any mistakes, supporters of TT?

What journey-type setting was it on?

 

[BTB 500]

I bought a TT One XL at Asda for £145. To cover a journey between Ipswich and Dundee, it routed A14, M6, M74, A80, A9 and A90 a total of 522 miles taking 8 hours 39 mins.

Without navigation, I used A14, A1, A66, M74, A80, A9 and A90 a total of 470 miles and it takes 8 hours.

Can you clarify. Do you mean you did the trip using the TT route and the ACTUAL time was 8 hours 39 mins, or was that just the TT's estimate (these are normally pretty conservative, particularly where A roads are involved)?

The extra mileage is quite possible if you have the TT set to choose the fastest route rather than the shortest.

 

[mw_C32]

Wonder what the Sat Nav like in Lexus or Vauxhall cars.

I have an Astra estate (new model) with CD 70 sat nav built in, it has TMC too.

If I am very honest I think it is easier to use/program than the comand system in my 06 model ML, the screen on the ML was better.

M.