I have been told that most of the nav systems in cars, pale in
comparison with the ones you can buy off the shelf.
A lot of this depends on who they are buying their nav systems from.
I know some needs maps loaded from a DVD to make them work.
Stewart
At 04:29 PM 1/20/2009, you wrote:
This sounds still better than the Nav system that came in my wife's 2007
Ford. I believe these are made by Pioneer.
We were going to visit family over the holidays and my cousins had moved to
a new house that we hadn't been to before. This is just outside of
Harrisburg, PA.
I sometimes turn on GPS systems before I need them, just to see how they are
at basic navigation. I programmed in the address, since I didn't know
exactly where they were and once we were on 83N, off of 695, I turned it on
and it immediately told me to get off at the next exit, which is nuts. I
don't want to take MD and PA back roads for the next 100 miles. I canceled
the navigation and tried it again a bit later and it still was bugging me to
exit, which I knew was wrong.
Finally, as we were getting near, I took one of the exits. It was a nice
drive through a quaint, small PA town, but after about 4 miles, I crossed
the exit off 83N I really wanted. This was the same system I tried to
program to take the Tappan-Zee bridge coming back from NE, and gave up after
about a half-hour of fighting with it (in the driveway of course).
It's breathtaking how god awful this GPS system is. I'm glad I bought the
car used and wasn't stupid enough to spend the $2,000 the Nav option cost
new.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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