the option is definitely turned off. i mean...it will route me 15-20 miles out of the way taking other highways in the area. it just won't go up the obvious highway. i've tried using the "shortest" route instead of "fastest", but sometimes that doesn't include the highway for stretches too...like it might end up picking a road that runs parallel to the freeway, and is just a mile or two shorter to the destination, but would take way longer to actually drive on.