| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Connollys bus gate | |
| Posted by: | Michael Robinson | |
| Date/Time: | 23/06/21 15:46:00 |
| The local authorities do provide changes to SatNav providers. Waze has the advantage that there are real people who can interact with the people who make the request. Google, Apple and the rest - forget it. A change is submitted and disappears into a black hole with no idea if it will be actioned or not and no way of following up. In the case of Google, it doesn't matter if they implement the change anyway. If the restriction uses ANPR and lots of drivers continue to drive through, then the google algorithms will re-open the road. You can forget anyone in a local authority being able to contact let alone influence a product manager in San Jose with development team in India to change this behaviour. "the local authority could be allowed to redesignate the classification of roads" Again, you are presuming how all the different SatNav providers algorthims work and they don't provide any visibility into their algorithms today because these are core intellectual property. Why should they let any local authority change them? As I said - the only thing they care about is saving time for drivers. They don't give a toss that residents get annoyed by a constant stream of traffic along a street. "This isn't technically difficult to do". Can you cite your knowledge and expertise of the how each of the SatNav provider algorithms work and your insight into their business models with justification why they should devote time and resources into redesigning their products and processes? As an engineer I just wish I had got money for every time someone with no knowledge of how the technology worked said "how difficult can it be..." or "that's got to be easy..."/ |