Suggestions regarding traffic information and route changes

[Adrian Avram]

I totally agree! The same thing happened to me as well, and I only noticed it because the driving route (blue line) started to separate from the planned route (grey line).

[Marinus van Deudekom]

Before the route is recalculated there is waarbinnen and you can choose to follow the suggestion of not. Its not indicated hoe much time will be saved

[CD130]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom Okay, so a notification does appear on the screen? I must have missed it every time, then. Do I understand correctly that the notification disappears automatically and that, if you don’t make a choice, the “faster” route is automatically selected? In that case, this would explain the experience I described above

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@CD130 that's the problem. It doesn't

[CD130]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom Sorry, I don’t quite understand. What doesn’t it do?

[Hubert Thoring]

@Cd130 : Among motorcyclists

Sorry, so I am of the opinion that the motorcyclist should and must still think for himself ...

I keep zooming out and in with the Remotek One to keep an overview of what there must be in terms of traffic information and is not always up to date. If you are on the highway as a motorcyclist, you should always expect that there will be traffic jams, even suddenly, and this is not particularly nice but very annoying.

So, traffic jams can always be avoided with foresight on federal roads or country roads, a motorway is to be avoided.

District roads and dirt roads are the better choice

[CD130]

Let me give you an example. A while ago, I left Stuttgart for the Netherlands on my motorcycle. Shortly after I left, a serious accident occurred about an hour further along the route, resulting in the entire motorway being closed and adding 1.5 to 2 hours to the journey due to the detour. Overtaking on a motorcycle was hardly possible on those busy roads.

A group of riders with Garmins (yes, using the exact same traffic information) left the hotel shortly after me. They were warned about the incident right at the beginning of their route and were immediately routed via an alternative route. I, on the other hand, rode straight into the traffic jam because I thought it wouldn’t be too bad on a motorcycle.

At a moment like that, there is simply zero useful information available in MRA. Even zooming out a bit with the remote doesn’t give you any more useful information. At most, you can see that there is a traffic jam somewhere further ahead, but not enough information to judge how serious the situation is or whether taking an alternative route would be the smarter choice.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@CD130 Sorry I responded to the wrong topic.
The warning appears and you have a short time to act. After that the faster route is selected automatically

[Hubert Thoring]

@cd130
@marinus-van-deudekom
@adrian-avram

Basically, one should expect traffic jams on highways nowadays, precisely because there are so many construction sites, and accidents are also piling up there.

On the subject in comparison to Garmin, the map information does not have to be automatically between MRA and Garmin even if both use HERE, there are also different versions depending on the HERE map base.

So don't rely on it and my tip, a motorcycle doesn't belong on the highway.

VG

[CD130]

@Hubert-Thoring said:
So don't rely on it and my tip, a motorcycle doesn't belong on the highway.

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