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Garmin Needs IQ Routes
Wednesday July 16, 2008 // Share on Facebook
Remember I gave an idea a while ago on how to make driving directions better? Well now that idea has a name, IQ Routes, and TomTom is using it. Apparently this was announced back in March, while I suggested it in February of the previous year. No, I didn’t get any credit for this idea 
The new TomTom IQ Routes technology is based on actual average speeds on roads, rather than the posted speed limits. This intelligent routing technology is based on anonymous historical speed profiles of over 6.2 billion miles of driven roads, gathered over the years by millions of TomTom users. It takes into account all the factors that may influence the time it takes drivers to get to their destination, including traffic lights, rotaries, steep slopes and speed bumps.
The TomTom IQ Routes speed profile database continues to grow at the rate of over half a billion measurements per day, so the time and spatial accuracy of TomTomIQ Routes technology will continually increase.
This pushes TomTom way up the ranks of GPS companies. Maybe even past Garmin. Although I am happy Garmin took back my 2-1/2 year old refurbished StreetPilot to put a new battery in it for me 
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