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The myRAC app has everything you need in one handy place. Use our route planner to plan journeys and avoid traffic jams with real time updates. Get the latest driving news and advice. Plus, you can set handy app and email reminders for your MOT test, car service, insurance, and tax so you won’t miss important dates. And if you’ve got cover with us, you can manage your membership and report your breakdown online, straight from the app. It’s the quickest way to get help if you break down. • The quickest way to get help if you break down You can now report your breakdown via the app, and we’ll immediately start finding one of our expert, local patrols to help you. • Manage your membership If you bought your cover directly from us, you can manage your RAC membership straight from your phone. See your documents, check what’s included in your cover and update your details any time. • Set email reminders Good news – now you can set handy email reminders for your MOT test, service, tax and insurance. That way, you’ll never miss an important date again. • Plan your route Get from A to B with our route planner, complete with real-time updates to help you avoid traffic jams, roadworks, and toll roads. • Predict future travel Just tell us the date, time and route of your journey and we’ll estimate how long it will take – taking into consideration planned roadworks and events. • Get news and fuel prices Stay up to date with the latest driving news and never overpay for fuel with our money-saving price watch feature.

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35.8K Ratings

At last this now works. 😊

After a few years of this app just showing maps with red lines on hold ups or whatever, and symbols with no worded information making the app pretty much useless.........someone has listened to the comments from users and made it a bit more like the old RAC driver assist app. Now all I have to do is press a symbol, and it tells me what the problem is so I can make a decision whether to use the road or make a detour. The only issue I have is that even though I’ve selected fingerprint to log on I’m still only given the email and password option. Please can you sort this bug out? Now the app is worthy of five stars, please don’t let some young upstart of an app developer with a “new and fresh and innovative style or idea” break it again, therefore making it useless. I don’t want to have to change my review back to one star. If anyone does try just sack them.......easy peasy, who cares!

Developer Response ,

Hi Adie, thank you for taking the time to send us the full details of the feedback you have - I will be sure to refer this onto the relevant team on your behalf. Thanks, ^Cara

Roadside assistance.

Although the roadside assistance took longer than I expected to get to me, due to extremely bad weather conditions. The stress from the waiting around for recovery soon passed when a young man from the R .A .C. called Kyle arrived. After he had finished getting wet through doing his job, Kyle, who probably just wanted to get dry .Instead he took the time to chat with me and explained the problem and what to do about the problem. Once he was happy that I was happy, Kyle was on his way to his next job. An absolute asset to the Company this lad. 10/10 for Kyle, worth his weight in gold, polite and professional.

Hi, we are really pleased to hear that you received a great service from Kyle. We’d love to make the thanks official for him. Could you please send a copy of this review, including your membership, full address with postcode and contact details to our team at [email protected]. Thanks, ^Cara

No problem with the RAC itself, RAC has always sorted me out when needed and no complaints about their service, always good ….. but this app just seems to take me into an endless “please login to …. (Whatever)” loop. Checking out the features it seems to take you to an RAC webpage to report an incident? In the past I subscribed to another U.K. roadside assistance service (the acronym begins with an A and ends with an A) that has an exploitative pricing model (the RAC seems much more straightforward and fair on pricing and I highly recommend the RAC versus the A … A provider re pricing), but the app for the A …. A was more helpful. My advice is to stay with the RAC but to give them a ring on your phone if you break down: there will be a very helpful person on the end of the line and they’ll be with you promptly. Added: very helpful response from developer, below, thank you for noting this and responding, most impressed.

Hi Prof Timm, I am sorry to read you are having issues with the MyRAC app. Could you please send this over to our team at [email protected] along with your membership number, the device you are using and the version of iOS it is running so we can look into this further. Thank you, Cara

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Best online route planners 2022

Which web-based journey planner makes the most sense.

With the summer holidays fast approaching, the number of British drivers hitting the road to travel to family, friends and beach resorts is only set to increase – and this means an inevitable rise in traffic and congestion.

One way to avoid being stuck in nose-to-tail hold-ups is to use a route planner ahead of time, so you can see where traffic hotspots might be, plot any lunchtime stop-offs, and even plan for any electric-vehicle charging needs.

Over the years, in the era of built-in sat-navs and smartphones, these pre-journey web planners have become less important. However, many providers have pivoted their model to allow you to plan in advance and then transfer to an integrated companion app. This is in addition to calculating journey times based not only on live traffic, but also on what the traffic is likely to be based on your chosen departure time.

For those travelling to remote parts where signal might be at a premium, the ability to print off hard copies of turn-by-turn instructions still has its uses, too.

We put eight route planners – all of them free to use – to the test, to see which one you should load up before your next road trip.

How we tested them

We put the eight route finders to the test with a journey from the Auto Express headquarters in central London, out through north-western suburbs, to the home of UK motoring: the British Motor Museum in Warwickshire. 

This allowed us to test city, A-road and motorway route planning, with each planner graded for accuracy, live traffic alerts and route options. 

Also taken into consideration during the test was the ability to print out turn-by-turn directions, how easy the planner was to link to an app and any other useful extra features offered.

Previous test winner Google Maps comes out on top again because it really does do everything you need, and in an easy and intuitive way. Waze and Bing Maps join it on the podium, and are great alternatives if you prefer the user interface. 

Google Maps

• Website: maps.google.co.uk
• Rating: 5 stars

Google Maps has long been our favourite route finder, doing everything simply, quickly and easily. This is the fifth time that we’ve awarded it top spot in this test, and for good reason. 

Searching is easy, and the planner has a wealth of options for fine-tuning your trip including live traffic, predicted traffic and app sharing. A bonus is the ability to switch between satellite imagery and a traditional map, as well as using Street View.

Of course, it’s embedded with the full power of Google, so you can find landmarks and other useful locations on your route extremely easily. It’s hard to see how it won’t always be the best of the bunch.

View Google Maps

• Website: waze.com/livemap
• Rating: 4.5 stars

Once the new kid on the block, Waze is now well established as a super route planner. Last time we ran this test, we were pleased to see the web-based journey planner had been updated to fall in line with the quality of the app, making use of the community-based traffic data. Journeys are accurate and timings based on live data. 

The website is fully integrated with the award-winning app, with intuitive buttons to let you transfer your journey to a smartphone. We were also impressed by the ability to schedule a journey with a desired arrival time, and Waze will prompt you when it’s time to set off based on traffic at that moment.

• Website: bing.com/maps

Microsoft’s version of Google is not far off our winner. Place searching and nav are intuitive, and you can easily add rest stops. Traffic is colour coded, and there’s a clear way to print. One frustration is that there’s no obvious way to share your planning with an app – a shame in a connected world. 

Not seen elsewhere is live Highways England traffic-camera feeds, showing flow at that location – really useful in bad-traffic areas.

View Bing Maps

• Website: wego.here.com
• Rating: 4 stars

Here’s a top company that provides software for car makers’ own sat-navs, and its WeGo route finder is impressive. It looks more advanced than Bing or Google, but is actually a bit less intuitive. That said, all the core functionality is there, although whether it’s accounting for live traffic isn’t all that clear. It is easy to transfer a planned route to the HERE app or print directions.

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TomTom MyDrive

• Website: mydrive.tomtom.com

This online route finder started life as a companion site for those who owned a TomTom sat-nav, but now it’s transitioned to work just as well for those without. Functionality matches its rivals’, too. 

A unique feature is the Thrill option, to give a more scenic route based on how hilly or winding you want it to be. We also like the motorcycle-friendly route option. If you own a TomTom, you can share your progress directly to your device, too, or just with your smartphone to turn it into a sat-nav. 

View TomTom MyDrive

Via Michelin

• Website: viamichelin.co.uk/web/routes
• Rating: 3.5 stars

A bright spot here is a function to calculate the cost of a journey and then generate an expense receipt. The planning functionality is solid, with accurate routes and the option to take current traffic into account. 

Yet while the options to tailor your journey are quite extensive, it’s a shame most are hidden behind complex and cluttered filters. You can print directions easily, but again there’s no option to share with an app.

View Via Michelin

AA Route Planner

• Website: theaa.com/route-planner
• Rating: 3 stars

The AA is better known for breakdown cover than route planning. Its online offering falls behind some of the tech-based firms’, with a slightly outdated site and functionality. But the basics are all there and you can use the AA’s library of live traffic alerts to tailor your journey to avoid jams. 

However, it’s quite clunky to use and the adverts make it messy – especially when compared to the simplicity of our top-ranked sites. While you can print directions, there’s no way to share with a paired app.

View AA Route Planner

RAC Route Planner

• Website: rac.co.uk/route-planner

As with the AA, the core function of getting from A to B is there, with accurate routes, yet the user interface is not as smooth as our winner’s. Location look-up could be a lot better and there’s no way to use predicted traffic for future departures. Again, printing directions is easy, but there’s no app. Importantly, the RAC offers the option to calculate how much the trip will cost in fuel.

View RAC Route Planner

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The route planner isn’t limited to the UK. You can get accurate directions across Europe. Remember that European breakdown is worth considering if you’re heading to the continent, because repairs and getting back can be costly and ruin your trip.

Once you enter your start point and destination the route finder will map out the best routes for your journey, giving you an estimation of time and an accurate mileage count. It’s easy to add waypoints, so if you know you need to take a detour en route then you don’t need to workout separate journeys.

The route planner will give you a list of directions to your destination, and each individual direction has its own mileage, helping you to keep on track and stay clear of wrong turnings.

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Distance between Moscow and San Francisco

Flying non-stop from moscow to san francisco.

How far is San Francisco from Moscow? Here's the quick answer if you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line.

Flight distance: 5,884 miles or 9469 km

Flight time: 12 hours, 16 minutes

Because of the curvature of the Earth, the shortest distance is actually the "great circle" distance, or "as the crow flies" which is calculated using an iterative Vincenty formula. For a long distance, this appears as a curve on the map, and this is often the route that commercial airlines will take so it's a good estimate of the frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate as well.

This is a fairly long flight, so unless you have a Gulfstream G650 or your own Boeing or Airbus, you might be booking a commercial flight. In that case, your travel time would really need to include how many minutes to get to your local airport, wait for security, board and taxi on the runway, land at the other airport, and get to your destination. Scroll down to see a more realistic calculation that takes into account all these factors to get a more accurate estimate of your actual flight time .

Moscow to San Francisco airports and flights

In the quick calculation above, we assumed you had a private plane and just wanted to know the time in the air from city to city. But for most of us, we're going to be flying on a commercial airline (whether it's first class or coach). So that means we really need to account for all the extra travel time getting to the airport, waiting for our flight, and making it to the destination.

To give you a better estimate of real-life travel, we've put together a flight itinerary with actual airports. Eventually you'll be able to customize this plan, choosing your own airports and flights. But for now, here's an example we've selected to give you an idea of how traveling might work between airports.

Departure airport: Moscow Domodedovo Airport (DME)

Arrival airport: San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

With the airports selected, we can estimate the travel time to and from the airport, based on how far the airport is from downtown.

Getting to the airport: 79 minutes

Getting to your destination: 33 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from DME connecting through LHR and arriving at SFO flying on British Airways. We can figure out how long it would take to fly including take-off and landing, time to taxi on the runways, and an average layover time of about 2 hours.

Initial flight time: 3 hours, 40 minutes

Connecting airport: London Heathrow Airport (LHR)

Connection flight time: 11 hours, 14 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Moscow to San Francisco including time spent getting to and from the airports, roughly 2 hours at the departure airport for TSA security lines and waiting at the gate, plus the connecting flight with a 2-hour layover.

Total travel time: 21 hours

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How far is it the other way?

The distance is the same either way if you're flying a straight line. But for a real trip, there can be plenty of differences so go ahead and check the reverse directions to get the distance from San Francisco to Moscow , or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities .

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