Our NAVs SUCK!
11-20-2008, 10:16 AM
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This is the whole reason I didn't want nav on my G. I had it on my old G coupe and it sucked massive *****. It's like the sport seats I didn't want because that thigh extender hurt the back of my legs. I love my car even if I don't have the options you all do. I especially love not having those 19 inch rims! Guess you can say that I am a minimalist.
Oh yeah, BJ did you punch it yet?
11-20-2008, 10:44 AM
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I feel your pain BLackjack. I wonder if maybe its just built in NAV's. I have the exact same issues with the nav on my 335. I was driving from Dayton to South Bend, IN. BMW nave told me 6h. My Garmin told me 4!! So I made the trip with 2 Nav's and listened to the Garmin.
I'll drive somewhere around town, have my nav set for shortest time. I'll recognize that its taking me a longer way and go what I know as the shorter route. It will then recalculate and come up with a shorter time after it starts going my way. So I'm like, if you can calculate that this is a shorter time, why the heck didn't you take me this way!
I don't know what's up with these things.
With my G35 I always seemed to be able to knock about 10min/h off the drive time it suggested. The day I sold it I discovered that you could set your average highway speed and I had mine set to 55. Oops. Not that that would affect the routing.
I'll drive somewhere around town, have my nav set for shortest time. I'll recognize that its taking me a longer way and go what I know as the shorter route. It will then recalculate and come up with a shorter time after it starts going my way. So I'm like, if you can calculate that this is a shorter time, why the heck didn't you take me this way!
I don't know what's up with these things.
With my G35 I always seemed to be able to knock about 10min/h off the drive time it suggested. The day I sold it I discovered that you could set your average highway speed and I had mine set to 55. Oops. Not that that would affect the routing.
11-20-2008, 11:45 AM
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NavTeq is only going to supply the data. The logic comes from Clarion. And for what it is worth, NavTeq will likely provide MUCH better data than Zenrin did.
Better data maybe equal better routing, if the problem w/ the route is that the data is not representing available roads well.
Better data maybe equal better routing, if the problem w/ the route is that the data is not representing available roads well.
11-20-2008, 11:55 AM
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NavTeq is only going to supply the data. The logic comes from Clarion. And for what it is worth, NavTeq will likely provide MUCH better data than Zenrin did.
Better data maybe equal better routing, if the problem w/ the route is that the data is not representing available roads well.
Better data maybe equal better routing, if the problem w/ the route is that the data is not representing available roads well.
A little OT, but does anyone else think that the Infiniti nav talks too much? It always annoyed me with my G35. The BMW lady is much more concise and non-repetitive.
11-20-2008, 11:59 AM
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11-20-2008, 12:02 PM
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Well, I guess thats a little subjective. Sure, it works and will get you where you're going, but as pointed out my Blackjack, not as well as it could. I was relatively happy with my BMW nav until I tried a 4 (or as it said, 6h) trip with it. At least the BMW nav lets me do stuff while I'm driving faster tham 2mph.
11-20-2008, 12:08 PM
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Just tell me the highway name, etc as I'm getting close and then when I get to it tell me to turn now. When I got my BMW I thought the nav instructions were a little odd and I didn't understand them, but now I really like and prefer them to my G35.