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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by neuronic on Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:34AM (#19746418)
> I've used similar nav systems from BMW, Subaru, and Toyota and they seemed like lame software running on a 5-10 year old phone. Poor touch screens, smaller screens, poor voice recognition, and poor nav. I'd rather they just have an aux port for music and let me hang my own tablet on the dash somewhere.

Thought the same, but the newest Volkswagen generation has improved a lot. Their touch screens and software feel much much more usable than even 2 years ago.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by sliken on Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:52AM (#19746492)
Comparable to google Nav on a new iphone or pixel 3? If so, I'll definitely have to keep an eye on the future VW electric cars.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by neuronic on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:29AM (#19748503)
No, definitely not but they have still made leaps from previous iterations. And I think that's a very positive development.

My subjective impression is it basically went from major annoyance to "quite usable". I recently used it on a trip from Northern Germany to Amsterdam and it worked really well.

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