Review on 🚗 TomTom GO 60 Portable Car Navigation System by Ben Alvarez

Used for a 2000 mile trip last week. I yelled at him and was ready to throw him out the window before I had even driven 50 miles on the way back. Before I talk about that, I will state that the device served its function and I never got lost because of it. It wasn't too difficult to set up, but it took 12 hours or more to load maps etc. I thought it was just my relatively slow internet connection, but I see this issue mentioned in other reviews. The Bluetooth connection to my smartphone is easier than any other Bluetooth connection I've ever made. I really appreciate the little guide on the right. Gas station display screen approaching and how far away they are. It's good now. Some background. I live in the countryside. There isn't usually much traffic, and the closest "town" to where I live has about 20,000 residents. Rush hour lasts about 25 minutes on a bad day. I bought this device because I was planning a trip that would take me through several cities with more people in the suburbs than around me. The drive to the destination was great! The GO 60 got me on the track I expected and was dying to go. Helped me navigate the many intersections by giving me enough time to change lanes and go through all the other processes required to get through a busy 70 mile zone. The return trip was wrong, very wrong after the first 50 miles! I feel like I'm going insane just writing about this! The starting point I used was 10 feet from the destination I set up to get there. Before leaving, I entered my home address. I clicked the appropriate button to create a route. GO 60 pulled me out of an area I've been enjoying all week. However, soon GO 60 was sending me more than 40 miles east on a route that deviated from the original route set a week earlier! Both times the route was adjusted to find the fastest route. Can someone explain to my big old fat head how on earth a route that takes me 100 miles off my track, not at all close to the first route, is the "fastest" route? So now the fun begins. I really like technology, especially when it works properly, but I still stick to some old school technologies. My wife and I brought a new atlas. So we tried to find a route that would take us to the interstate that got us in the first place. We had to go northwest, and GO 60 took us north-northeast. While taking the alternate route we found on the paper map, OH urged us to "turn your ass!" or so my brain translated to the 34th dirt road he suggested proceeding. Even after we managed to get to Interstate where the GO 60 met us, it kept trying to get us to turn around and come back. It would probably make a funny movie scene, and I'm sure I'd laugh at the poor idiot doing it. Being such a poor idiot in real life pissed me off. Unfortunately, before I left, I told my wife that this was going to happen. A few years ago I had to bring an elderly relative to the same area and we used her TOMTOM and the result was exactly the same. I tried a second time not to miss the right turns, but at 70mph I couldn't figure out which of the many turns I had to make was wrong.