Broken Navigation?

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Apparently I need to return this because it’s pointless- The navigation volume doesn’t work, the maps don’t scroll and there are no traffic camera warnings. On a positive note, it never needs charging and will happily sit under the passenger seat in perpetuity… 🤓

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In my experience, the co-driver that uses this type of navigation (SWMBO) tries to follow the planned route by turning it upside-down and sideways in an attempt to get the route on the map to follow the direction of travel, causing a blockage of the drivers view through half the windscreen and passenger side window, the offside mirror disappears from the drivers view entirely. In the end the co-driver decides she knows better than this method of navigation and we get lost :ROFLMAO:
 
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Sonic said:
Apparently I need to return this because it’s pointless- The navigation volume doesn’t work, the maps don’t scroll and there are no traffic camera warnings. On a positive note, it never needs charging and will happily sit under the passenger seat in perpetuity… 🤓

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As someone who’s worked with maps throughout my career I don’t see why anyone would own one of these when CarPlay/android auto with auto traffic routing through apps like waze or google maps exist. Today was a good example, I needed to drive north to south, if I had followed my planned route I’d have had a few hours of delays, using waze I was redirected around road closures and traffic problems.

Even for planning Google maps and waze have good features to plan and then pull up the route the next day.
 
Ecsrobin said:
I don’t see why anyone would own one of these when CarPlay/android auto with auto traffic routing through apps like waze or google maps exist.
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Easy. Not everyone has a smartphone. Some still use what we might term a cheap ‘burner’. My Dad for example, has never owned a smartphone in his 85 years and drives around the country to numerous car shows. Sometimes the pleasure is in the trip itself, not rushing from A to B.
 
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mike64 said:
In my experience, the co-driver that uses this type of navigation (SWMBO) tries to follow the planned route by turning it upside-down and sideways in an attempt to get the route on the map to follow the direction of travel, causing a blockage of the drivers view through half the windscreen and passenger side window, the offside mirror disappears from the drivers view entirely. In the end the co-driver decides she knows better than this method of navigation and we get lost :ROFLMAO:
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Have you checked to see if there’s a firmware update available ?
 
Sonic said:
Easy. Not everyone has a smartphone. Some still use what we might term a cheap ‘burner’. My Dad for example, has never owned a smartphone in his 85 years and drives around the country to numerous car shows. Sometimes the pleasure is in the trip itself, not rushing from A to B.
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Yeah guess it’s an age thing.
 
Did you ever tried to plan a long distance scenic route? If you do so you'll see that it's so much easier to SEE where you want to drive. No changing scale, no hidden roads, even time restricted roads are on the paper map. You really know where you want to drive.

On the other hand digital maps are good for the last mile and maybe to avoid actual congested areas. But planning without an accurate paper map will hide the good roads. My findings after 50years on the road...

Bye for now Fred
 
AP756 said:
Did you ever tried to plan a long distance scenic route? If you do so you'll see that it's so much easier to SEE where you want to drive. No changing scale, no hidden roads, even time restricted roads are on the paper map. You really know where you want to drive.

On the other hand digital maps are good for the last mile and maybe to avoid actual congested areas. But planning without an accurate paper map will hide the good roads. My findings after 50years on the road...

Bye for now Fred
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Google my maps is perfect for this I’ve planned all my big Europe trips with it. Porsche also do a good app that has an algorithm to put you on good roads that works very well.

Like I said above it’s an age thing but I suspect if I did a digital route and you did one from a map we’d both be happy driving each others routes. The advantage with the digital route though is I can plug my phone in and not have to rely on a passenger to get things wrong only myself.

We’ve also done some driving tours where you have the route book or GPX file and following the box file on CarPlay/android auto is great. Means my passenger can enjoy the views more.
 
What with it being a quiet, wet Sunday, I think I'll take the opportunity to share my recent interactions with Ms Fox relating to navigation matters.

Ms Fox has had a robust aversion to digital navigation solutions for many years, preferring a combination of atlases, post-it notes stuck on the dash, printed instructions from the AA route planner (very 2004), and never driving anywhere she doesn't already know the way to. Google Maps/Waze/Tom Tom etc. are apparently "distracting" and "don't work".

Last Monday she was required to attend a training event on "the wrong side of Birmingham" (is there a "right side"? Perhaps a discussion for another time).

I knew something was afoot when she returned home on the Friday before, brandishing reams and reams of paper which were revealed as A3 printouts from the AA route planner site. She then proceeded to spend a not inconsiderable amount of time using her PC, these printouts, and an inexhaustible amount of pens to create a supposedly foolproof guide. I did offer my support by attempting to extol the virtues of a dashboard-attached phone running Google Maps but this fell upon deaf ears, comrades!

On the Monday in question I sent a text message enquiring if the journey had been successful and the destination reached. A later telephone conversation revealed that all sorts of shenanigans had taken place with commensurate malcontent experienced. Apparently the "roads were wrong" as they didn't match her directions, resulting in pulling over to the side of the road and contemplating options which included - thankfully discounted as a viable solution - phoning me, ensconced in an important meeting almost 30 miles away.

Apparently, the situation was only resolved when Ms Fox attached her phone to her dashboard using a safe and secure mounting solution, activated the Google Maps application, entered the desired destination, and followed the clear, real-time instructions provided.

Imagine such a thing!

Thank you for reading I am off for a lie down.
 
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Last Monday she was required to attend a training event on "the wrong side of Birmingham" (is there a "right side"? Perhaps a discussion for another time).
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The correct answer (if any of my past experience can be relied on) is emphatically the “out” side, the inside being guaranteed to deliver a strong desire to never return again. See also Bradford, Luton and Croydon among others for a similar result.
 
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