Detours all wrong.

[Rogue]

The idea of detours sounds good but the lack of crossroads makes them outrageous.
In Washington, after an accident, they will clear one lane asap so that traffic can at least move.
During construction they will leave one lane open while they work on the others.

Construction zones have a posted speed limit and if not it's 20mph.
The speed limit is usually posted at the Road Construction Ahead sign.
In a heavy traffic area they will often grade the shoulders of the highway to allow traffic to pass.

Yes, I've turned that feature off because of the above.

[Goose_Few]

Great that SCS let us choose! I like it, you don't. Set a slider and we are all happy

[Ryu]

To be fair, what you are describing are lane closures and not detours. A detour is when the road is closed completely and you must go a different way.

[SkinGravel]

I turned em off too. Great idea, but a bit too much for now. Maybe they'll patch it to be less of a burden later. Definitely glad they let us choose whether or not to have them in the game though, fo sho!

[roggek]

I think is too easy with the detours on highways, just take the right exit and cross the intersection...
And then you're on the highway again...Simple...

There should be more and longer detours from the highways...

[J4MESOX4D]

Oh so this is what these are - I thought they were just botched random events. I had some time off the game and returned to discover these irritating closures resulting in outrageous detours - I had 3 in a row and they just look ridiculous and don't work well based on the world and scale.

[meistroracer88]

Okay in Oregon, I had a detour going through that little town (Sorry forgot the name) by Ontario. The lane I needed was closed off and I had the to use the other lane that circled around the town. But once I figured how to get passed the detour after I circled around. It was smooth sailing, but when you have detour like I just describe. What are you supposed to do? I went through the grass rather than changing my route. Because there were no other road open. In RL, they would had another lane or something to allow traffic to go through. Next time, and I wished I took a picture of that. I'll take a picture the next it happens.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by meistroracer88:

Okay in Oregon, I had a detour going through that little town (Sorry forgot the name) by Ontario. The lane I needed was closed off and I had the to use the other lane that circled around the town

This was one job I ran into yesterday - it was Ontario to Lakeview and I really wanted to do it because of an unexplored road. Shortly after starting I too ran into that little town and the whole lane was closed so my only legitimate choice was to loop round left and go backwards the way I came on a monumental detour. Even saving/loading didn't remove the stupid blockade. In the end I just bulldozed my way through and carried on the normal route.

The feature just doesn't work all that well on this scale and with such a limited amount of routes. The one above is very poorly thought out too and the roadblock itself just looks laughble.

[Bobby]

Which is why i asked SCS to put a feature (couple more) in the GPS/Satnav (exactly like real life on their blog/twitter feed) when you experience a road closed ahead -or better satnavs have the ability to show you the queing traffic even miles ahead- you can select 'detour' and it will generate a new alternative route. SCS aren't exactly brilliant at aknowledging features or requests - it's not like i'm going to be paid royalties because i suggested it...

[MEAN MACHINE NJ]

You can tell when someone never driven before they complain about Road constructions and
Detours and lane closures

[Dat Zorro]

Originally posted by Mean Machine:

You can tell when someone never driven before they complain about Road constructions and
Detours and lane closures

In real life, radio stations would also warn you when certain highways are completely closed off (And telling you alternative routes) or where traffic jams are due to accidents or more cars than the roads can't handle, so you can at least choose another route in advance. ;)
So when a road block appears out of nowhere without any warning, then yes, I'll complain.

[Bobby]

Originally posted by UAZ-469:

Originally posted by Mean Machine:

You can tell when someone never driven before they complain about Road constructions and
Detours and lane closures

In real life, radio stations would also warn you when certain highways are completely closed off (And telling you alternative routes) or where traffic jams are due to accidents or more cars than the roads can't handle, so you can at least choose another route in advance. ;)
So when a road block appears out of nowhere without any warning, then yes, I'll complain.

Depends what part of the world your in. Also radio stations rely on other drivers to phone in and report an accident or closure etc. Unless it's due to weather, then the highways drop a nationwide alert. Otherwise if your the first amongst many at the scene when it happens a radio station ain't going to be much help. But a satnav detour option will. People are creatures of habit, they follow the same roads and routes. If something happens and your forced an alternative route, there's a huge chance you and many,many others won't know it. Not everyone is driving A-B. You certainly don't press 'M' on your steering wheel...

[xTNPxSeal]

I just disabled this featured as I found out the hard way that it's nothing more than a loop-of-frustration. IRL you clearly can make your way around without much of an issue but on here at least for me it was an endless loop in Phoenix with no way out of it so I ended the delivery, very frustrating to say the least. Maybe in the future once the bugs are ironed out I'll try it again but for now I'll leave it disabled.