California is ridiculous. I'm from San Francisco, was visiting LA and someone asked me where I lived. I pointed to 101 and said, turn left on that road and keep going for 8 hours.

Edit: sorry, "the 101". When in Rome, etc

Because thanks Obama!

It is. Apple Maps recommends a combo of the fastest and most popular routes. Sometimes the popular routes are shown as options because they’re nicer.

This goes through Bend Oregon, home of the last Blockbuster on Earth. That’s a solid recommendation IMHO.

You are indeed correct. My mistake, sorry about that. I fixed it.

If you use Waze instead, they actually have a setting you can toggle for roads that are more twisty. In my experience it works great!

Might wanna ask them about that directly. I certainly won’t be able to answer that question.

Kurviger is what you're looking for

https://kurviger.de/en

There's a bunch of motorcycle specific apps for people who want to use their phone to navigate (I recommend using an old phone if you plan to mount it to your motorcycle, vibration can kill the camera)

I love that one as well, can be used as a launcher on Android, IIRC you can even use it with two devices so you don't have to take the SIM out of your good phone.

https://www.drivemodedashboard.com/

And loop de loops

lol you want new and useful features in the last 10 years? Here's where you can find Popeyes on the way.

Afaik this is already included in the calculation for the fastest route.

Except they never display the real alternatives when they DO exist! Often I'll be driving in an area I know well, and there will be a crash or roadwork or something and Google will say "welp, better just add 30 minutes to your 30 minute commute" and I'm like "nah fam there's a whole other road"

I dunno how they can consistently fuck up that bad.

The best alternatives are the ones you find zooming into the map. The software knows it can’t recommend anybody take them because they’ll immediately become slower than the main routes.

Also never seen the roundabout 180

imagine the poor person who does this for you losing their job to ai 😔

I have the opposite problem where I know there are better alternative routes but google refuses to acknowledge them.

I miss the good old days where u could click and drag the line to a route that looked better and see if it actually would work.

I've never seen "most environmental" or "fewer turns". We get "fewer toll roads" and sometimes "avoids traffic" during rush hour

I'm surprised that works. At my job they make us put in the origin and destination and will only pay the mileage for the shortest route.

In my experience many recreational motorcyclists specifically seek out curvey roads as they are fun. Am I missing something?

Or Nevada

Also, looking at the road, it doesn't seems to be that bad. It ain't central France bad