> Nissan is reportedly leaving navigation systems out of cars that would normally have them
Wonder if this will begin a trend. The car navigation system is pretty worthless these days except if you find yourself unexpectedly out of phone range (I still carry paper maps, but these days many phone navigation apps allow you to pre-download your route so you don’t have to worry about being out of coverage).
Awesome. I won’t consider any vehicle with a touchscreen for controls. Everybody already has phone navigation, so why duplicate it with a craptastically different UX?
And then half the cars can’t sync your phone without a dozen menu selections.
In all of the recent cars I’ve been in, the navigation system wasn’t present but the screen was for CarPlay/Android Auto. I wonder if the screen is not there at all in these cars or just the GPS parts of the head unit.
Wonder if this will begin a trend. The car navigation system is pretty worthless these days except if you find yourself unexpectedly out of phone range (I still carry paper maps, but these days many phone navigation apps allow you to pre-download your route so you don’t have to worry about being out of coverage).