calimoto Motorcycle Navigation

The app does not recognize stop signs or stoplights, which causes multiple issues when navigating and following directions. On several occasions, road design combined with app errors led to conflicting guidance: the audio navigation told me to turn one direction, while the visual route on the screen displayed the opposite. For example, the mapped route would show a right turn, but the voice navigation would tell me to turn left. The left turn isn’t visible on the map yet and is actual after the intersection however the app doesn’t recognize the intersection. So it gives directions as if the light it stop sign is the turn. Additionally, because the app doesn't understand that you are sitting at a red light or a stop sign, it will aggressively urge you to turn while you are stuck waiting in the middle of an intersection. To make matters worse, if you happen to miss a turn, it completely deletes your next via point. You almost have to ignore the audio directions entirely and just look at the map. This is a major design flaw and is highly dangerous. The second issue—also stemming from the app’s inability to recognize intersections with lights and stop signs—is that it frequently routes you onto major roadways where you end up sitting in traffic for unrealistic lengths of time. If you still decide to use this app, you have to manually verify your routes based on your own local knowledge to determine if a route is actually efficient. I will not be using this app in any unfamiliar areas; you simply never know if it is going to put you on a heavily congested main road with lights at every intersection or a wide-open country road.

I love this app for creating quick rides in my area without much planning. I do wish I could pick time instead of distance as a variable. I would love to be able to take a shorter but twistier ride. Right now I have to play around with distance and direction to get it right when I only have a certain window of riding time.