03-01-2025, 12:21 PM
Coming home tonight I decided to stay off the interstate and take rural highways. I have taken this route from the same location before so I just put in Home in Google Maps and didn't think anything of it.
About a quarter of the way in, it put me on a gravel road. I thought WTF? I'm sure I had it set to "avoid unpaved roads". So I stopped and checked. I could find no such setting. I mean nowhere could I find a setting that had anything to do with unpaved roads.
I continued on, hoping to get the hell off the gravel road ASAP. Then it put me on another gravel road. This road, while gravel seemed to be in good shape; smooth and no potholes. So I sped up to about 45mph. Then out of nowhere I came upon big potholes. I swerved and successfully avoided them... but then encountered an absolutely gigantic pothole which I couldn't avoid. The car bottomed out with a huge bang. I'm still trying to figure out if anything got damaged.
Fuck Google Maps!
Waze does have the setting to avoid unpaved roads. I have never really cared for the interface of Waze, though.
About a quarter of the way in, it put me on a gravel road. I thought WTF? I'm sure I had it set to "avoid unpaved roads". So I stopped and checked. I could find no such setting. I mean nowhere could I find a setting that had anything to do with unpaved roads.
I continued on, hoping to get the hell off the gravel road ASAP. Then it put me on another gravel road. This road, while gravel seemed to be in good shape; smooth and no potholes. So I sped up to about 45mph. Then out of nowhere I came upon big potholes. I swerved and successfully avoided them... but then encountered an absolutely gigantic pothole which I couldn't avoid. The car bottomed out with a huge bang. I'm still trying to figure out if anything got damaged.
Fuck Google Maps!
Waze does have the setting to avoid unpaved roads. I have never really cared for the interface of Waze, though.