Originally Posted by Shimagnolo

My peeve is the asinine routing algorithms they use in the 705.
"Bicycle" mode apparently means: "Take the longest possible detour to the destination."
"Car" mode apparently means: "Choose the route that will use the most gas."

Today I was on a 110 mile ride.
About 50 miles out on the return trip, I was on a 4-lane state hwy with huge paved berms that runs *directly* to my home town.
I tried a route in "bicycle" mode, and it plotted a route that added *30* miles to the trip.
I switched to "car" mode, and it plotted a route that added *11* miles by going 6 miles East to use an interstate.

Is it really too much to ask for to chose "Shortest path from point A to point B"??

Incidentally, my car GPS is an Alpine that uses a Navteq database, and it also has no option to choose the shortest path, and tries to put me on congested interstates at every opportunity. Who are the fools that design these products? One of the most valuable things a GPS *could* do is choose the shortest path to save gas, but apparently the designers are oblivious to that concept.