Hello, Stan:
Depending on whether you have the Intouch PRO navigation system, or the STANDARD BASE Intouch version I have on my humble XE prestige, my advice may or may not help you much.
There’s a STACK of preference settings that are hidden in your SatNav Settings menu. “Hidden” is the right word, because as you’ve noticed, the owner’s manual doesn’t care JACK about helping us understand where and what the settings are. My Lord!.
I found by a lot of digging around in the menu, that the SatNav decides what route to guide you on, based on realtime traffic problems being reported to it on the fly.
It also decides to keep you on your original directions, or RE-route you in the middle of your trip, based on HOW LONG a delay the traffic problem is estimated to cause. (How it estimates the amount of delay a particular traffic incident will result in, I don’t know).
I do know that there is a setting in the menu called “TMC” or “TMZ”. When you select it, it allows you to pick how LONG a traffic delay you want the SatNav to allow before it decides to re-route you off your current path.
There is also a setting that instructs the SatNav to ‘warn” you how long the traffic delay is FIRST (so you can choose whether to sit in the traffic or not), OR you can instruct SatNav to autonomously make the re-route decision for you without even telling you it has done so or giving you a preference NOT to be re-routed.
By DEFAULT, it finds 3 possible routes for you to take, but always gives you the most fuel-economical route. Not the shortest route or the fastest route.
Once it initially maps out a route for you, BEFORE you touch that box on the screen that says “yes”, touch the “options” box next to it. This will allow you to select “Fastest Route”, or “Shortest Route” or “Economical Route”, very similar to good old Mapquest.
Also, once you’ve selected your route, touching one of the icons on the left side of your map will bring up the option called “Turn List”. This shows your directions in a Mapquest-style print format.
Took me 2 months to get SatNav on the XE to finally excel at its job, and earn some bragging rights. There are a dozen settings and preferences I had to find in the menus that really need to be selected, but I hope these few I mentioned here are helpful to you. Let me know.
Depending on whether you have the Intouch PRO navigation system, or the STANDARD BASE Intouch version I have on my humble XE prestige, my advice may or may not help you much.
There’s a STACK of preference settings that are hidden in your SatNav Settings menu. “Hidden” is the right word, because as you’ve noticed, the owner’s manual doesn’t care JACK about helping us understand where and what the settings are. My Lord!.
I found by a lot of digging around in the menu, that the SatNav decides what route to guide you on, based on realtime traffic problems being reported to it on the fly.
It also decides to keep you on your original directions, or RE-route you in the middle of your trip, based on HOW LONG a delay the traffic problem is estimated to cause. (How it estimates the amount of delay a particular traffic incident will result in, I don’t know).
I do know that there is a setting in the menu called “TMC” or “TMZ”. When you select it, it allows you to pick how LONG a traffic delay you want the SatNav to allow before it decides to re-route you off your current path.
There is also a setting that instructs the SatNav to ‘warn” you how long the traffic delay is FIRST (so you can choose whether to sit in the traffic or not), OR you can instruct SatNav to autonomously make the re-route decision for you without even telling you it has done so or giving you a preference NOT to be re-routed.
By DEFAULT, it finds 3 possible routes for you to take, but always gives you the most fuel-economical route. Not the shortest route or the fastest route.
Once it initially maps out a route for you, BEFORE you touch that box on the screen that says “yes”, touch the “options” box next to it. This will allow you to select “Fastest Route”, or “Shortest Route” or “Economical Route”, very similar to good old Mapquest.
Also, once you’ve selected your route, touching one of the icons on the left side of your map will bring up the option called “Turn List”. This shows your directions in a Mapquest-style print format.
Took me 2 months to get SatNav on the XE to finally excel at its job, and earn some bragging rights. There are a dozen settings and preferences I had to find in the menus that really need to be selected, but I hope these few I mentioned here are helpful to you. Let me know.