I don't want satnav in my next car
Discussion
My only problem with satnav is that I stop memorizing routes.
I was driving from York PA to Dulles airport a few weeks ago and I've done that drive quite a few times but this time there was no satnav available with the rental and I couldnt remember the route.
Had to stop at Services to buy a map.
When you say "cost you mones" are you refering to updates ?
I was driving from York PA to Dulles airport a few weeks ago and I've done that drive quite a few times but this time there was no satnav available with the rental and I couldnt remember the route.
Had to stop at Services to buy a map.
When you say "cost you mones" are you refering to updates ?
Gizmo! said:
For a while it was seen as an essential option. Now, however, I think it's probably an inconvenience - how exactly will you be able to update the maps files in a '99 Volvo S80 (to take a random example)?
You go to Volvo, and buy the new RTI software and map discs. Or am I missing the point?
Gizmo! said:
For a while it was seen as an essential option. Now, however, I think it's probably an inconvenience - how exactly will you be able to update the maps files in a '99 Volvo S80 (to take a random example)?
From what I recall of owning a Volvo S60 (without Satnav, I might add), the Sat Nav function on that generation of Volvo cars has long been defunct. It involved using the sat nav system to contact an operator and provide them with a postcode or destination, who would then generate the directions to route your journey and send them to the car's sat nav system. Sounds very complex, IIRC from the reading I did on the system at the time, Lexus may have had a similar system that kept working when the Volvo one was terminated. On the other hand, a lot of older cars are naturally full of defunct techology, especially ones from the car tech boom of the late 90's. Take a used BMW 7 series for example. I was looking at one the other day with loads of toys that don't work anymore. The sat nav still work, but IIRC it was a DVD system which required you to load discs in for navigation. It had the expensive Traffic Master option, a system that monitored ANPR data from major roads around the country to detect congestion and traffic jams and route you around them. That system too is defunct, despite being over £1000 when new! And the car telephone, now outlawed and switched off. The analogue TV set still works in the North or England but that will be defunct next year too after the digital switch over.
Baryonyx said:
Gizmo! said:
For a while it was seen as an essential option. Now, however, I think it's probably an inconvenience - how exactly will you be able to update the maps files in a '99 Volvo S80 (to take a random example)?
From what I recall of owning a Volvo S60 (without Satnav, I might add), the Sat Nav function on that generation of Volvo cars has long been defunct. It involved using the sat nav system to contact an operator and provide them with a postcode or destination, who would then generate the directions to route your journey and send them to the car's sat nav system. Sounds very complex, IIRC from the reading I did on the system at the time, Lexus may have had a similar system that kept working when the Volvo one was terminated. On the other hand, a lot of older cars are naturally full of defunct techology, especially ones from the car tech boom of the late 90's. Take a used BMW 7 series for example. I was looking at one the other day with loads of toys that don't work anymore. The sat nav still work, but IIRC it was a DVD system which required you to load discs in for navigation. It had the expensive Traffic Master option, a system that monitored ANPR data from major roads around the country to detect congestion and traffic jams and route you around them. That system too is defunct, despite being over £1000 when new! And the car telephone, now outlawed and switched off. The analogue TV set still works in the North or England but that will be defunct next year too after the digital switch over.
I realise of course that Volvo doesn't give a monkeys, but the obsolescence irritates me.
veevee said:
Emubiker said:
Comes standard in some Clios. A car you can buy for about £9,500 after discounts.
but the ones that come into clios are literally just a tom tom built into a pop-up bit the dashboardGassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff