Navigation quality examined in 30 European countries: Brussels scores below average | Inland

Less good navigation quality can have various causes: the maps in your built-in navigation system and/or the app on your smartphone are not completely up-to-date, you do not have a good internet connection due to your mobile phone provider, or it is due to the area around you. the city you are driving in.

When you navigate, apps such as Waze, Google maps and TomTom continuously use the signal from your built-in GPS and/or your smartphone’s internet connection to display current map and traffic data. That way you can always navigate as accurately as possible. Although the connection must be good and fast enough. There are also other reasons for a possibly less good connection: tall buildings or many trees next to the road, bad weather conditions and the position of satellites. And it has confused.com now investigated.

It is not uncommon for an insurer to investigate such a thing. When navigating in a place you’ve never been, a loss of a GPS signal or internet connection can sometimes cause you to get lost. At such a moment you not only run into problems with your route, but you also have less attention on the road due to the confusion on your screen. This can increase the risk of an accident.

In total, confused.com surveyed how fast map and traffic data are downloaded in 216 cities worldwide, including 30 major cities in Europe. It is not good when the download speed is less than one megabyte per second. In addition, they also checked the GPS signal or the internet connection. And finally, they also investigated what the internet latency in every city. latency or latency is the speed with which a navigation system or app responds to your commands. The longer the server takes to respond, the higher the latency or latency. And the less well the server scores.

Brussels is the only Belgian city included in this study. As the capital of Europe, Brussels is in the lower middle bracket, so the city actually scores below average. Brussels scores less well in terms of download speed and has one of the worst scores in terms of latency. However, Brussels scores very well in terms of GPS reception.

Cities like Helsinki, Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm score even worse when you look at the total score. Paris is the best student and scores flawlessly across the board. Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is the worst student in Europe.

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