The 55-mile route from my house to the Lakewood, NJ, baseball stadium came up as 125 miles on the car navigation display. Why? I made a mistake programming the route. Can you see above what the mistake was? Me, neither, for the longest time. Now, look at the Toll Roads button in the lower left corner. If you look carefully, you’ll see the icon is a slightly different shade of gray than the others.
That means I hadn’t selected the option “allow toll roads.” So it tried to route me North, West, South, and then East to avoid the Garden State Parkway toll road to reach my destination that was to the Southeast. Maybe responsibility for this gaffe should be shared: me for not initially seeing the nuance of shading, the interface designers for not thinking clearly. Fortunately, I did catch the error before leaving the driveway, but it took five minutes of head-scratching.
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