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Most Drivers Who Own Cars With Built-in GPS Systems Use Phones For Directions - Mostly Out of Frustration (cnn.com)
According to a new survey, many new car owners use their phones for directions despite their cars coming with built-in navigation systems. These users do it out of frustration, the survey added. CNN adds: The market research firm J.D. Power and Associates surveyed owners of new vehicles after the first 90 days of ownership. They were asked about all kinds of new in-vehicle technology including navigation, entertainment and safety technologies like lane-keeping assistance and automatic braking. For the most part, the survey found, people are relatively satisfied with the technology in their cars. On a 1,000 point scale, the average satisfaction score was 730. Navigation systems rated the worst with an average score of 687. Almost two-thirds of new vehicle owners with a built-in navigation reported using their smartphone or a portable navigation device to find their way at least some of the time. Nearly a third of those with built-in navigation used it for less than two weeks before giving up on it and using their phone or another portable device, according to J.D. Power. And more than half of people with built-in navigation systems never used them at all, according to the survey.
"According to a new survey, many new card owners use their phones for directions" - I know when I'm driving my card .... WTF /.?
What are you talking about? One of my favorite features of my touch-screen controlled radios is that you can get in the car, gently put your sleeping baby in the car seat, and then remember that when you last parked you were listening to the radio loudly. Now you're fucked because there's no way to turn the radio down before it turns on and blasts your neighborhood and wakes your sleeping child. The best part is there is about 10 seconds between when the radio turns on and the touch screen OR knobs (just looped into the computer control logic) are able to adjust the volume.
For some reason, my car's GPS display is always just blinking 12:00
Can you help me?
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?