Mark Chew
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Thanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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Good day,
I would like to recommend the following features for future upgrade:
A) the GPS calculates the number of traffic lights the user would encounter along the route.
B) let the user have the option to self determine the time traffic light and traffic incident would costs him.
This would greatly helps in calculating the fastest time. For example, routing using shortest distance is usually right. But due to the encounter of traffic lights and incidents along the route. The shortest distance is not the fastest time. All of us know this fact.
But many times, the fastest time is not the fastest time as the traffic lights encounter along the way are numerous but the GPS only estimate the small road vs expressway instead of individual traffic lights. Each traffic light encounter would costs 30 sec to a minute. Some route have 10 traffic lights vs 3 for another route but both are small road thus the GPS doesn't estimate correctly. And this is frequently the cause of frustrations of many drivers.
All the brands of GPS have this issue of calculating the fastest route cos none of them determine number of traffic lights along the route. They only estimate longer time for small route vs expressway. The reason may be that this issue is not important for big countries like Malaysia. But it is extremely important for cities like Singapore where traffic lights are numerous.
The 4 main factors of traffic speed to determine ETA are:
1) Distance
2) Speed limit along the route (Expressway vs Small road)
3) Number of traffic lights along the way
4) Traffic incidents along the way.
Traditional GPS calculate 1) Distance and 2) Speed limit. Recent high tech GPS includes 4) Traffic incidents. But so far, none look at 3) Number of traffic lights which is as important as 4) Traffic incidents and should be easier to include as it is fixed on the map. But on top of that 3) & 4) should have a time option to be set by users themselves as each individual have different tolerance for traffic lights and traffic incidents.
If the above I've mention is included in the feature, I'm very sure your GPS will stand head and shoulders above the rest as it routing technology would be top notch.
Mark Chew