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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by toast0 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:55PM (#37407765)
From my experience with two cars with factory nav, it's nice because it will show the next instructions in the the dash area, so when you're looking down to check speed you also get that. And, one of my cars has an option to show the next several instructions (Ford Sync2, which everybody hates because the UI is really slow, and kind of ugly). On the other hand, pay to play for data updates sucks. And most importantly, safety requirements mean you either have to yell at the car and deal with dated voice recognition or stop to adjust things; even if you have a responsible passenger who could use the touch screen.

Mostly, I just use my phone. It's simpler and faster. My cars are too old for carplay/android auto, and my experience with android auto was that it was worse than the phone in a clip or a cupholder, but carplay seems nice. For longer drives to unfamiliar places, I'll put the address in the car too, sometimes the phone gets tired of listening to GPS.

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by dylan604 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:26PM (#37408174)
>sometimes the phone gets tired of listening to GPS.

I'm sorry, what?

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by toast0 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:41PM (#37408387)
I was recently driving to visit a friend near Mt Baker, WA. and about 10 miles out, in a not particularly wooded area, the phone said 'lost GPS signal' and just assumed I had stopped moving, and wasn't able to pick up GPS again for the rest of the drive. Not a huge deal, because I was just following the road and only had one last turn to make, and I had directions from the car's nav anyway.

GPS seemed to work ok on the return trip.

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by dylan604 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:11AM (#37414982)
so you're one of those that likes to make cute and endearing backstories to give sympathy to an inanimate object rather than getting irate at a mechanical something that you pay a monthly service not working correctly because the thing to get mad at is out of your realm of control and that anger serve no purpose.

i wish i could be more like you

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