palmermd said:
johnr said:
I'm glad you and I (and a few others here) share the same astonishment at the poor UI implementation. I hope you've called Nissan so they have some feedback. It's really a shame that while they've succeeded in such a game-changing revolutionary electric drivetrain, they opted for a cheap nav unit and cut corners on designing the user interface.
It is not hard to discover this flaw. Anybody who has driven a new car built after 2001 can see it. If this car were released 10 years ago, it would be passable, but there have been lots of developments in the last 10 years that seem to have been overlooked on this UI. Hopefully some of them can be fixed by Nissan with a software update, but some are probably not ever going to change as they are tied to the hardware that was selected.
Funny you should say "overlooked", this is not the first car Nissan has build yet they did not make these mistakes on other older cars in their line. In fact other Nissan NAV units have the ability to do voice commands to find restaurants, not just make a call. My guess is Clarion was the cheapest to integrate Brokenwings so they went with them. This is a Euro double DIN Clarion stock model modified for Nissan with crap software pasted together, this was not made for the LEAF but pasted together for the LEAF.
On the audio side where Clarion has been for years, the unit is terrible and simple things are so painful they are almost useless. Take the IPOD interface, if you have a large selection you need to scroll endlessly to find an artist and there is not fast scroll or letters on the side to jump to an area, this starts form the beginning when the car is off. Finding something can take minutes, literally. Every part of this system is an joke for a Japanese car. THe UI in the VOLT is far better than that LEAF, in fact most modern NAV units are.