SAT NAV: - What does economical route do?

[SRRAE]

I've noticed on the Sat Nav, you can set routing to Economic route. Surely that is the same as fastest?

 

[gary_a4_quattro]

I would imagine it selects a route where you are less likely to be accelerating then braking, stopping and starting, even if the route was say 20% further than the shortest, the fact that the car is at its most economic driving at a steady speed along that route would render an overall improvement in economy.........

Now what about the 'Funnest' (yes I know its gramatically incorrect) setting ?!?!?!

 

[SRRAE]

What I do like about the Audi Sat Nav is it keeps to main roads as much as possible. I used a £400 Garmin satnav in Cornwall and was regularly sending me down roads hardly big enough for my car, because apparently it is a national speed limit road (60mph) but in reality I was pushing it doing 20.

 

[rum4mo]

Yes, SRRAE, both Garmin and TomTom do like to send you down some crazy/impossible/dangerous routes and typically a few roads that should be designated "for local access only"! I've even noticed that my up to date TomTom likes to try to save me time by routing me off at flyovers and back on on the other side of that flyover when there is queueing, not is that clever as there are enough dumb fools out there queue jumping by doing that as it is as that just causes more stoppages for other people. Thing is, with TomTom and I'd expect Garmin, there is the ability to notify them and hopefully get things corrected, though normally I've just got annoyed and lived with that duff info!! TomTom wanted to save me 7 minutes the other day by sending me into a farm yard/small development which I know only has a single entrance/exit!!
I can't see why the SAT NAV provider that Audi uses can be sourcing maps from any better source as obviously Audi does not manufacture SAT NAV or their mapping data - probably they use Bosch/Blaupunkt.

Edit:- mind you, some of my issues with TomTom could be down to which routing option I have set it for!! (though that should never end up by you being sent down crazy too narrow roads/lanes - that needs sorting out by them all!)

 

[SRRAE]

Yes, SRRAE, both Garmin and TomTom do like to send you down some crazy/impossible/dangerous routes and typically a few roads that should be designated "for local access only"! I've even noticed that my up to date TomTom likes to try to save me time by routing me off at flyovers and back on on the other side of that flyover when there is queueing, not is that clever as there are enough dumb fools out there queue jumping by doing that as it is as that just causes more stoppages for other people. Thing is, with TomTom and I'd expect Garmin, there is the ability to notify them and hopefully get things corrected, though normally I've just got annoyed and lived with that duff info!! TomTom wanted to save me 7 minutes the other day by sending me into a farm yard/small development which I know only has a single entrance/exit!!
I can't see why the SAT NAV provider that Audi uses can be sourcing maps from any better source as obviously Audi does not manufacture SAT NAV or their mapping data - probably they use Bosch/Blaupunkt.

Edit:- mind you, some of my issues with TomTom could be down to which routing option I have set it for!! (though that should never end up by you being sent down crazy too narrow roads/lanes - that needs sorting out by them all!)

I have Co-Pilot on my phone and although missing several functions, one function which is handy is you can set the speed which you'd expect for each road. So for single track roads, which according to their map data is 60mph limit, I can change the settings and say I'd expect to get 15mph which changed the route accordingly.

I had a garmin about 10 years ago which could do that, it seems its a great feature which has been removed from the standard sat navs. Probably reserved for the specialist ones.