Step count when driving

Don't worry - Fitbit has this problem too. I got 10,000 steps by sitting in a bus on a very potholed road a good few years ago.

How is your watch suppose to know that the bumps are not steps?

800 bucks that do not know I cant walk at 80 miles/h?!

Have you reported the issue?

yes, but 2 days ago only

It's good to report it, but Garmin's heard about this repeatedly for years.  I can see where it's tricky to fix.  Yes, you can say if you're moving 80 mph, don't count bumps as steps, but you'd need GPS on full-time to know how fast you're moving, so big battery drain.  I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but Garmin should have the necessary talent.

Right, bur phenix 6x has enough battery power for it and maps to know airports, highways or metros. I think we can expect a software to know we cant walk at high speed. full understanding for some problems with brushing teeth. Yet, no move, no step would be my preferred programming solution. 

I think we can expect a software to know we cant walk at high speed.

If the GPS is disabled, the watch doesn't know your location, distance traveled, or the speed it took you to get from point "A" to point "B".  Steps are counted based on movement. In some circumstances the watch will misinterpret certain movements as steps. It's the nature of the beast and no way around it. 

phenix 6x has enough battery power for it and maps to know airports, highways or metros.

Yes it does, but what you'd want to happen would require the GPS to be on 24/7.  The watch specs state up to 60 hrs with GPS, and this is under perfect conditions.  I'm willing to bet anything that there is less than 1% of users that are willing to charge their watches every 2 1/2 days at best just so their 6X won't count erroneous steps.

I have same issue with update 13.10. Car drive is ok but when I'm on bus issue occurs same with teeth brush. Do we have a solution on horizon? I can't believe that 800 € watch is not smart enough to "feel" the difference between walking and bumpy riding.

It thinks you're dancin'!

In the last 2 years I changed 4 smartwatch brand: huawei, fitbit, Samsung and finally Garmin. Trust me, false steps are a common and "fisiological problem" and Garmin is probably the less worst. Fitbit forced me to creare a "car driving" activity EVERY morning otherwise the 10 minutes of highway to my work place were counted as thousands of steps and same with one minute of hairdryer. At the end of the day Garmin overstimated steps in my opinion are not so much and counterpair the understimates one (for example short movements around house and at work). As others said, total daily steps are much more (and much better) influenced by a 30 minutes walk and few hundreds of steps more or less conditioned by the algorithm used are totaly ininfluents.