Giant RideControl Turn by turn navigation

st0ut

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While this maybe OK on roads you are already familiar with BUT...
in a City in which you are unfamiliar this is worthless at best and dangerous at worst.

if you make a wrong turn.. even though it told you to make the turn it simply puts an X on the display and says off course.

This the equivalent of having your GPS system just repeating you are lost you are lost did you know you are lost?...

In a city west of of New England this might work OK. Where the cities are in a grid but here in New England trying to navigate unknown streets this function nearly led me on to the highway twice.
An intersection that turn left with 3 choices for a left hand turn it indicates "turn left" OK which left. doing this while dodging cars and buses and not cutting people off ,,, and if you make the wrong choice you the get the X again.

It needs to update routing faster, be more granular with details and have an audio queue alert(s) to be functional. If you are going to be riding in an unfamiliar area use a different app this one cant be trusted yet.
 

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It is not a good system really. This is why I use Mapy.cz smartphone GPS bike navigation. It works in English and is good worldwide.
 
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