• artyom@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    if you’re taking a trip on an electric vehicle, you have to set your app up before you start driving to find the next charger

    If you’re driving long distance you’re probably using an app anyway. All EVs have navigation built in. You just type in the destination and the car will automatically route you to chargers as necessary.

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      10 days ago

      I know how to get to my mom’s house so I’m not using an app for that.

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          10 days ago

          Sometimes but the majority of my trips I know where I’m going. Even on vacation I’m generally thinking take this freeway until such city and I’m spontaneously stopping for a museum on the way when we get tired of sitting. Sometimes I’m even this ‘freeway is boring I’m going to find a side route’. Roads go places and for long trips I can navigate by a compass and get someplace. In the late afternoon we look for a hotel we can reserve a few hours distant and then use the GPS to get there. But I don’t want a forced route until then.

          I don’t get people who run the GPS for every trip. Can’t they navigate without it?

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            9 days ago

            I used to think that as well …. Until I kept running into road closures and construction.

            Now I use navigation even on familiar trips because

            • immediate detours for construction
            • immediate detours for traffic
            • accurate ETA to tell your destination
            • fastest route rather than just the route I’m familiar with