Keep Right. Ahhhhhhhhhh

[Jason71]

I don't do that many long journeys with the Satnav but am I getting forgetful or has something changed at some point?
Did a long motorway/dual carriage way journey at the weekend and the car was constantly telling me to "keep right" when passing slip roads. I did not need to "keep right" I just needed to not move left and take the exit.

If the road is splitting and the left most lane(s) are going a different way to me then this makes perfect sense and is a useful direction, even though the car seems to know what lane I am in.
BUT
if like the vast majority of exits the existing carriageways are going to continue on and the exit requires me to move over to a dedicated exit slip road then this instruction is completely superfluous and rather annoying.
There is no other equivalent I am aware of. The car does not tell me to carry straight on every time I pass a side road or say "not this one" for every exit before mine on a roundabout So why is it effectively telling me to not take the next exit every time an exit approaches on the motorway?

 

[init6]

This again?

Motorway Navigation Instructions

Why does the Tesla Navigation on Motorways treat every junction as separate Motorway section? When I'm on a long trip, as I was today, all I want to know is the distance until my next exit. I don't need to be told to stay on the motorway at every junction. When did this change? I'm sure it...

teslamotorsclub.com

 

[spdpsba]

I did not need to "keep right" I just needed to not move left and take the exit.

Are they not the same?

 

[WllXM]

Are they not the same?

Well, same as the wife shouting "careful" whenever she sees a car half a mile away going in our direction. Unnecessary and confusing instruction, and actually more dangerous for the driver than having said nothing.

 

[init6]

Well, same as the wife shouting "careful" whenever she sees a car half a mile away going in our direction. Unnecessary and confusing instruction, and actually more dangerous for the driver than having said nothing.

You can turn at least one of them off

 

[spdpsba]

Well, same as the wife shouting "careful"

She is ‘right’ as well

No, I was responding metaphorically to @Jason71 - for his comment about “I did not need to ‘keep right’ I just needed to not move ‘left’. I guess both the ‘right’ and ‘left’ are in fact moving in the same direction atleast in UK before the elections.

But coming back to the real navigation keep right comment - I had a Velar before this and their satnav (and even the earlier Tomtom satnavs - one you can load in a SD card and put in in your phone) always kept saying keep right especially near motorway exits. In a way, it was very reassuring that you are on track in those early sat nav days (Tom tom days) when you never had google navigations maps online.

 

[Jason71]

This again?

Motorway Navigation Instructions

Why does the Tesla Navigation on Motorways treat every junction as separate Motorway section? When I'm on a long trip, as I was today, all I want to know is the distance until my next exit. I don't need to be told to stay on the motorway at every junction. When did this change? I'm sure it...

teslamotorsclub.com

Yes I guess it is the same thing but no one said the "magic" words "keep right" so I didn't spot in in my search

 

[Jason71]

Are they not the same?

Well technically yes. But the point really was that the instruction amounts to "do nothing". Traditionally Satnav instructions are restricted to times when you need to do something.

 

[spdpsba]

"do nothing".

In those early days of sat nav period that comment was ‘very reassuring’ even though we do not have to do anything. Tesla is just bringing back those memories - deja vu

 

[Doudeau]

I posted (on upgrade thread?) that I found recently in France, during the limited driving I did, that it was working how we would like so wondered if it’s only an issue when in countries where we drive on the left.

Gives me hope it’s not intentional and will be fixed.

 

[FastLaneJB]

She is ‘right’ as well

No, I was responding metaphorically to @Jason71 - for his comment about “I did not need to ‘keep right’ I just needed to not move ‘left’. I guess both the ‘right’ and ‘left’ are in fact moving in the same direction atleast in UK before the elections.

But coming back to the real navigation keep right comment - I had a Velar before this and their satnav (and even the earlier Tomtom satnavs - one you can load in a SD card and put in in your phone) always kept saying keep right especially near motorway exits. In a way, it was very reassuring that you are on track in those early sat nav days (Tom tom days) when you never had google navigations maps online.

I had a Windows Mobile phone with a separate Bluetooth GPS device back in the day and pretty sure it didn’t do this. It was fine with “Continue for 40 miles” kind of instructions.

Anyway +1 for this being annoying but my Lotus did the same as the Tesla so I think it’s down to some problematic change in UK mapping data that Tesla use vs a bug in their software. Could be wrong but my guess on why this is happening.

Hard to know also if it’s even a bug or they did it on purpose. The constant lowering of your music for the voice prompts is the most annoying part about it.

 

[NewbieT]

More LHD satnav ported to RHD behaviour? FFS. Slightly less annoying than diving off every slip road but still annoying.

 

[Jason71]

More LHD satnav ported to RHD behaviour? FFS. Slightly less annoying than diving off every slip road but still annoying.

Is that what you did before the recent changes?

 

[ajmorr.is]

I had a Windows Mobile phone with a separate Bluetooth GPS device back in the day and pretty sure it didn’t do this. It was fine with “Continue for 40 miles” kind of instructions.

Anyway +1 for this being annoying but my Lotus did the same as the Tesla so I think it’s down to some problematic change in UK mapping data that Tesla use vs a bug in their software. Could be wrong but my guess on why this is happening.

Hard to know also if it’s even a bug or they did it on purpose. The constant lowering of your music for the voice prompts is the most annoying part about it.

I remember a long time ago on an unfamiliar journey I used a laptop and serial GPS plugged into a 12V DC-AC inverter. I ran some mapping software (can't remember what, probably keygen hacked) to give satnav-like routing. I'd say that this was around 2002, before phones were smart enough even to have displays that could be used as maps. Since that didn't have voice announcements at all I don't bother having them turned on in any car.

 

[FastLaneJB]

I remember a long time ago on an unfamiliar journey I used a laptop and serial GPS plugged into a 12V DC-AC inverter. I ran some mapping software (can't remember what, probably keygen hacked) to give satnav-like routing. I'd say that this was around 2002, before phones were smart enough even to have displays that could be used as maps. Since that didn't have voice announcements at all I don't bother having them turned on in any car.

I used to have a job that required me to do a lot of driving and sometimes going into villages with roads with no names. I knew the general part of the country I was in pretty well from doing that job but you'd still not know all the little roads in tiny villages. I used to use Autoroute and print out my route, then when I got to where I no longer knew where I was, I'd reset my trip counter and drive for exactly 0.7 miles as my instructions would say then turn left onto "Unnamed Road", I'd reset my trip on the turn then I'd go 1.4 miles and turn right onto "Unnamed Road", etc, etc. It worked surprisingly well at finding locations, you'd only be screwed if you took a wrong turn as sadly my paper based process couldn't recalculate a new route on the fly

Again before Sat Navs were really a thing or well maybe you could get them but really rather expensive so didn't want to bother.

 

[ajmorr.is]

I used to have a job that required me to do a lot of driving and sometimes going into villages with roads with no names. I knew the general part of the country I was in pretty well from doing that job but you'd still not know all the little roads in tiny villages. I used to use Autoroute and print out my route, then when I got to where I no longer knew where I was, I'd reset my trip counter and drive for exactly 0.7 miles as my instructions would say then turn left onto "Unnamed Road", I'd reset my trip on the turn then I'd go 1.4 miles and turn right onto "Unnamed Road", etc, etc. It worked surprisingly well at finding locations, you'd only be screwed if you took a wrong turn as sadly my paper based process couldn't recalculate a new route on the fly

Again before Sat Navs were really a thing or well maybe you could get them but really rather expensive so didn't want to bother.

Autoroute! That was the software I used in my setup.

 

[FastLaneJB]

Autoroute! That was the software I used in my setup.

Yeah think it was about the only game in the town back then in terms of routing software for home users.

 

[Jason71]

Yeah think it was about the only game in the town back then in terms of routing software for home users.

Yeah Yeah. And you tell that to the youth of today..............

 

[FastLaneJB]

Yeah Yeah. And you tell that to the youth of today..............

I’m pretty sure my son wouldn’t even know how to follow road signs back home. If his Sat Nav failed he’d be as good as lost out at sea.

 

[Jason71]

I’m pretty sure my son wouldn’t even know how to follow road signs back home. If his Sat Nav failed he’d be as good as lost out at sea.

Driving while holding an A-Z on the steering wheel is definitely a lost art.