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> Car Navigation Systems Arrogantly Charge Forward Against Products That Are A Decade Ahead of Them. Very droll. On the nose, but also droll. > There's a few
by braythwayt 9y ago
> Car Navigation Systems Arrogantly Charge Forward Against Products That Are A Decade Ahead of Them.
Very droll. On the nose, but also droll.
> There's a few more steps to do this on mobile, so I prefer to use the car's navigation system.
And there is no structural obstacle to this becoming even more seamless on mobile. Apple's iOS 11 already has a "car mode," and while it is highly imperfect at the moment, they are iterating a lot more rapidly than an industry that wants me to drag my car into the dealership every 12,000km for software updates.
- brlewis 9y agoThe only structural obstacle is that in a tunnel, the car knows how far you've gone and GPS doesn't.
- sli 9y agoGPS, maybe not. But the phone's accelerometer knows.
- jgeada 9y agoVirtually all phones have acceleration sensors and can/could do short term inertial navigation in tunnels or areas with poor reception anytime they want. And don't forget that phones have many different ways of getting position information: bluetooth, wifi, cellular tower triangulation, etc, etc. I see no future world where in-car navigation could ever compete against a cell phone. For one, I replace my phone about every 2-3 years, whereas most cars have a far longer lifetime and none of the fossil burners have ever thought of having upgradability of the individual components as a selling point.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoI believe in Android Auto / Apple Carplay mode, the phone gets access to that info (and a stronger GPS antenna).