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Old Mar 24, 2023 | 01:56 PM
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Navigation - How is Route Calculated / /Decided Upon?

Trying to understand how the Ford navigation makes decisonson which route to take. I have a 2022 F150.

Two weeks ago today I left the parking lot of my workplace on the way to Biloxi MS. I put in the address of the hotel. I followed the directions and had no problems. Worked well.
On the return trip I put in the address of the parking lot from where I left two days earlier and it brought me back a different route.
Then on Wednesday of this week I had to make the same drive again. Once again from the same parking lot to the same hotel. The navigation took me a whole new way, and then slightly over 24 hours later when I headed back, I put in the same address as before, to my parking lot and I was brought back a whole new route.
So two round trips to the exact same place both ways and I was taken on 4 different routes.
Not once did I chage the settings in the navigation system in my truck, and not once did the system ask me about an alternate route, nor did it re-route because of traffic.
I had no problems on any of these trips. Just trying to understand why 4 different routes were given?
 
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Old Mar 24, 2023 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Fleetwood271
Trying to understand how the Ford navigation makes decisonson which route to take. I have a 2022 F150.

Two weeks ago today I left the parking lot of my workplace on the way to Biloxi MS. I put in the address of the hotel. I followed the directions and had no problems. Worked well.
On the return trip I put in the address of the parking lot from where I left two days earlier and it brought me back a different route.
Then on Wednesday of this week I had to make the same drive again. Once again from the same parking lot to the same hotel. The navigation took me a whole new way, and then slightly over 24 hours later when I headed back, I put in the same address as before, to my parking lot and I was brought back a whole new route.
So two round trips to the exact same place both ways and I was taken on 4 different routes.
Not once did I chage the settings in the navigation system in my truck, and not once did the system ask me about an alternate route, nor did it re-route because of traffic.
I had no problems on any of these trips. Just trying to understand why 4 different routes were given?
This is no help but my wife had a Garmin 8ish years ago and it was the same way. Rarely used the same route twice, it was almost entertaining!
 
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Old Mar 25, 2023 | 05:29 AM
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Don't such programs include an option to show the route chosen reversed for a return trip?
 
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