Most useless techno gizmo on a car
Discussion
X5TUU said:
On topic ... built in Sat Nav ... universally shocking and far superceded by Waxe / Google Maps / Apple Maps / etc... and free to update!
Prefer using my 2 year old sub £100 Garmin over the Discover Nav Pro in my 2017 Golf R.
The one built into the car has current speed limit info which is wrong most of the time. Plus no ability to display the true speed that you are travelling via GPS.
Plus a load of other tech crap on the car that does absolutely nothing to enhance the driving experience that I'll never use.
RammyMP said:
Usb sockets are always handy when you have kids with their heads stuck in their iPads. Had a nightmare recently on a drive home from Northumberland when the battery went in my youngest's ipad, she then sung all the way home.
Problem is that the kids just get out of the car with the damn thing still attached, and rip the connector out.The one I really don't get is in car Internet - Vauxhall have been pushing this. Is there really any one who is considering buying a new car, will pay the monthly sub for their car .... who doesn't already have a smartphone with a data package?
Krikkit said:
I can see that being occasionally useful - standing in the queue in Ikea, realising how much crap you've bought, set the seats to fold to make it less fiddly when you corral the children+trolley to the car.
So, you have a herd of children, or what ever the collective noun is, and a load of shopping. You then need to find your phone, put the PIN in wrong 4 times, look for the app which then crashes, press it and wait for the seats to deploy. Meanwhile, the person parked next to you in a Honda, opens the door, reaches in and deploys the Magic Seats in a hardly perceptible amount of time, loads the car and buggers off. 
FiF said:
Hasn't that been renamed the Golf R setting?
If not, it must be bloody close to being renamed that. Thought the f
ker was trying to nick my exhaust the other night on the M$ he was that close. Might have left the little in a rolling burnout when I could finally get passed the car that was in front of me. Don't think he appreciated that as he cut me up swerving across three lanes to exit at his junction a few miles down the road....rxe said:
RammyMP said:
Usb sockets are always handy when you have kids with their heads stuck in their iPads. Had a nightmare recently on a drive home from Northumberland when the battery went in my youngest's ipad, she then sung all the way home.
Problem is that the kids just get out of the car with the damn thing still attached, and rip the connector out.The one I really don't get is in car Internet - Vauxhall have been pushing this. Is there really any one who is considering buying a new car, will pay the monthly sub for their car .... who doesn't already have a smartphone with a data package?
CarAbuser said:
Not completely true.
I prefer the BMW nav over any app including Waze. The traffic routing is better, the directions and clearer and more concise and the UI is brilliant.
On any other car I'll choose Waze though. Even though I can't stand the thought of supplying all my movements as valuable data to google.
The killer function for me in the BMW nav. is the ability to send locations from my phone or laptop to the car - when we did our 2 week European tour recently, all our hotels and camp sites were sent to the car the week before we departed. We could also plan some more scenic routes whilst sat in bars and send the waypoints to the car for the following morning.I prefer the BMW nav over any app including Waze. The traffic routing is better, the directions and clearer and more concise and the UI is brilliant.
On any other car I'll choose Waze though. Even though I can't stand the thought of supplying all my movements as valuable data to google.
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