Routing onto a closed highway

[NineElectrics]

Today the Rivian nav. attempted to route me into a highway which was scheduled to be closed (and was, in fact, closed) the entire weekend (Friday night through Monday morning).

It’s not great.

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[Dark-Fx]

A couple years back I had waze do that to me, but when I followed the automatic reroute it ended up putting me onto the highway just before the closure... When I got off it rerouted again the same way.

 

[popoga]

Rivian nav is actually trash, routed me across a closed highway (with a [-] symbol on it even??) earlier today, costing me 20 precious minutes of my Very Important Life as I had to turn around and drive through the shitscape that is bellevue, wa to get back home.

It sucks at traffic guessing too, though, and it sucks at saving inputs ("do not take me across this awful bridge you always fuck this up") or whatever.

Crazy that they'd not allow Android Auto, but would use... Alexa? Just a total ball drop.

 

[VSG]

You didn't know 520 was closed? A planned outage that was heavily publicized? Seriously? I mean I assume that's what you're talking about, given the location. Complain all you want about the Rivian nav, but take some responsibility for your own actions too - no one I know went anywhere near 520 this weekend. There are enough problems in this world already, you don't need to be creating more for yourself.

IMO people have way too much faith in navigation and follow it blindly even when it's giving them poor advice. GPS is just a tool, and like any tool if you don't use it wisely you can get hurt.

 

[jtshaw]

You didn't know 520 was closed? A planned outage that was heavily publicized? Seriously? I mean I assume that's what you're talking about, given the location. Complain all you want about the Rivian nav, but take some responsibility for your own actions too - no one I know went anywhere near 520 this weekend. There are enough problems in this world already, you don't need to be creating more for yourself.

IMO people have way too much faith in navigation and follow it blindly even when it's giving them poor advice. GPS is just a tool, and like any tool if you don't use it wisely you can get hurt.

I’d guess the frequency of which you use 520 influences how much attention you give it’s closure… I use 520 very rarely and don’t pay any attention to it, for example.

I happened to go to the arboretum on Sunday with the kids and it did surprise me the Lake Washington E. Closure north of the foster island parking area wasn’t even marked in the Google Maps app.

 

[popoga]

You didn't know 520 was closed? A planned outage that was heavily publicized? Seriously? I mean I assume that's what you're talking about, given the location. Complain all you want about the Rivian nav, but take some responsibility for your own actions too - no one I know went anywhere near 520 this weekend. There are enough problems in this world already, you don't need to be creating more for yourself.

What media was I not paying enough attention to to miss that notification? Some folks just aren't in the area that often.

I’d guess the frequency of which you use 520 influences how much attention you give it’s closure… I use 520 very rarely and don’t pay any attention to it, for example.

Just so.

 

[Inkedsphynx]

Yea, I rarely know when they are closing the highways around here too, both because I don't pay attention and because they don't always plan or announce them well. I've gotten caught a few times.

I've also gotten caught in unexpected closures, like the one on 90 a few months back that came out of nowhere because someone damaged the bridge, or the one a few weeks back where someone spilled something all over 405. Both times I was trying to drive through there, both times the nav in the truck didn't help and the re-routing was less than helpful. I'm not too plussed about it though - google maps didn't show me anything differently, and this isn't a common enough occurrence for me to care to solve it with some other tool.

 

[NineElectrics]

IMO people have way too much faith in navigation and follow it blindly even when it's giving them poor advice. GPS is just a tool, and like any tool if you don't use it wisely you can get hurt.

Some people have faith in GPS navigation because it works properly on other platforms (Google, Apple, Waze).

 

[MichaelD]

You didn't know 520 was closed?

What has that got to do with it?

This post is about a navigation system failing at its basic function -- "Where should you drive?" We have an on-ramp nearby that has been closed for weeks. The Rivian wants to take it every time. Kia? Nope. BMW? Nope. Apple? Nope. Google? Nope. But the Rivian...

 

[mabowden]

The infotainment as a whole is very pretty, but needs a TON of work to be competitive.

Continues to ignore AA/CP which would solve all the problems.

 

[NineElectrics]

Today the nav. attempted to route me into an expressway which was configured to run traffic in the opposite direction.

 

[Rivianation]

I don't think Android Auto would ever make that mistake. The information gathering is too good to allow that to happen often, if ever. The crowd sourcing of so many Android Auto users also gives the most up to date traffic data (slowdowns/accidents/re-routes) that Rivan cannot compare. Maybe CarPlay comes close.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

This isn't a Rivian issue, I have had every navigation service I've ever used do this to me at one point or another.

 

[NineElectrics]

This isn't a Rivian issue, I have had every navigation service I've ever used do this to me at one point or another.

I can only speak for this one set of express lanes: I’ve never had Apple or Google maps make this mistake in this particular instance. I imagine that at one point this would happen regularly, but these services have tons of developers working on them and are constantly improving. I think the up to date location information from hundreds of millions of Android and Apple phones helps a lot.

 

[Riviot]

You didn't know 520 was closed? A planned outage that was heavily publicized? Seriously? I mean I assume that's what you're talking about, given the location. Complain all you want about the Rivian nav, but take some responsibility for your own actions too - no one I know went anywhere near 520 this weekend. There are enough problems in this world already, you don't need to be creating more for yourself.

IMO people have way too much faith in navigation and follow it blindly even when it's giving them poor advice. GPS is just a tool, and like any tool if you don't use it wisely you can get hurt.

What media was I not paying enough attention to to miss that notification? Some folks just aren't in the area that often.

I'm mainly Kitsap/Mason now and even I knew about it.
All of the media. Seattle Times had it up for the whole week, any local news station evening clips mention it ( I accidently saw when turning my TV on before switching to Netflix), and I don't have them but I'm sure the facebooks and tweeters had it too.

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