EatsShootsandLeafs
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This is the first car I've ever had with built-in Nav. I always thought it was overpriced. What I didn't realize, though, is how worthless it is. Not only is in-car nav expensive, but in the case of the Leaf it's actually not usable.
Here are the problems with this car's nav:
1) The Bad: The hand-holding is ridiculous. I cannot go direct to an XM station while driving, but I can navigate (requiring more steps) via catalog. Also, a passenger cannot put in a destination while driving. This is infuriating at times and in the same vein as the oft-hated "ok" button at start-up.
2) The Ugly: Search is woefully, shockingly, heart-breakingly, and breathtakingly terrible. I've complained on this before, but I have found that about HALF/50% of the locations I want to go to I cannot find. It just cannot find common street names. I don't know if it's because of its ineptitude with cities/townships that are right next to each other, or it has in the computer a street such as "E avenue" and I put in "East Avenue", but it can't find anything.
Although I have this navigation system on a four month old car the nav I actually use when I need it, because it finds 100% of everything on the planet 100% of the time, and quickly, is my iPhone's google maps with a $11 phone holder hanging from the windshield. So am I too stupid to use the car's nav? Maybe! However, Google maps at least doesn't remind me of my stupidity and finds what I want.
The only thing good I can say about nav in this car is that if it does manage to find a location it works well, with a nice crisp direction to it and easy to follow.
I can't wait for car manufacturers to build real capabilities into their dash computers/displays and give us apps like google maps.
Here are the problems with this car's nav:
1) The Bad: The hand-holding is ridiculous. I cannot go direct to an XM station while driving, but I can navigate (requiring more steps) via catalog. Also, a passenger cannot put in a destination while driving. This is infuriating at times and in the same vein as the oft-hated "ok" button at start-up.
2) The Ugly: Search is woefully, shockingly, heart-breakingly, and breathtakingly terrible. I've complained on this before, but I have found that about HALF/50% of the locations I want to go to I cannot find. It just cannot find common street names. I don't know if it's because of its ineptitude with cities/townships that are right next to each other, or it has in the computer a street such as "E avenue" and I put in "East Avenue", but it can't find anything.
Although I have this navigation system on a four month old car the nav I actually use when I need it, because it finds 100% of everything on the planet 100% of the time, and quickly, is my iPhone's google maps with a $11 phone holder hanging from the windshield. So am I too stupid to use the car's nav? Maybe! However, Google maps at least doesn't remind me of my stupidity and finds what I want.
The only thing good I can say about nav in this car is that if it does manage to find a location it works well, with a nice crisp direction to it and easy to follow.
I can't wait for car manufacturers to build real capabilities into their dash computers/displays and give us apps like google maps.