If voice guidance is late, vague or even completely absent (which I have found to be a quite frequent trait of Navigation) and we are caused to look at the screen often and unnecessarily, that’s not some ‘inconvenience’, it’s a major flaw. We are always potentially small fractions of a second away from disaster and, in my view, anything but cursory glances at a screen are undesirable. My ’case’ is that viewing the road and surrounding environment is vastly more informative than the screen view, not least because it’s live, plus such things as vanishing points can be utilised. But I’m not for a moment suggesting otherwise. On the words vs image (there’s a song about that!), sure, I agree. At first I thought it was a phone problem, but my new phone does the I’m happy to live with our differing viewpoints on how best to ride or drive. Often I hear in "150 metre" the "One Hundred" and the "fifty" spoken simultaneously. The words are however often not spoken clearly. And mostly it has been said already a few 100mtres earlier. It has never happened to me AFTER the turn though.
In my opinion a glimpse on your screen tells a lot more than a 1000 words.īut I share the thought that the spoken assistance is sometimes a bit late. I have been running my Garmins for many years without headset in my helmet, and thus driving on the screen only. But having a glance on the display at a self chosen moment, and thus knowing (without auditive assistance) where to go helps A LOT in avoiding dangerous situations. Of course attention needs to be focused on the road.
Generally, though, and certainly on my preferred road types, I think all the hazards and developing situations around me is where my attention needs to be, not forced into screen gazing due to badly timed voice guidance.
Said in MRA Navigation and downloaded maps.:
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