Nav System: A brief look

[MikeK]

Hello!

I had a chance to play around a bit with the nav system on one of the cars at Menlo Park the other day, and I shot a brief little video. This doesn't show entering the destination, which is really a great experience. I entered the address of my office by simply typing the street number and name, and the car auto-completed several options in nearby cities, one of which was correct. I tapped that one to set the destination, and the map slid in next to the speedometer.

It's a really, really nice nav system. I look forward to trying it out on the road, to see if it provides enough warning of turns to get into the proper lane and so on. But it's certainly head and shoulders above anything else I've used in a vehicle.

[Robert.Boston]

A little troubling to see how long it took to bring up all the map tiles. But other than that, looks nice!

[gg_got_a_tesla]

A little troubling to see how long it took to bring up all the map tiles. But other than that, looks nice!

Yes, offline maps for nav shouldn't take that long, I'd think...

[goyogi]

Or if they switch to MapsGL once it is released from beta there is less data transferred and I'm sure the Nvidia GPU can handle the on the fly rendering.

[santana338]

So is this the turn by turn nav system that is in the tech package or just the standard map/nav system?

[gmontem]

So is this the turn by turn nav system that is in the tech package or just the standard map/nav system?

The nav system on the 17" looks like online standard map to me. I doubt the Navigon offline version would have Google's watermark on the bottom right.

[MikeK]

The nav system on the 17" looks like online standard map to me. I doubt the Navigon offline version would have Google's watermark on the bottom right.

And yet, it had turn by turn guidance with the upcoming turn up by the speedo. My suspicion is that this is still unfinished, especially the offline part. It's already better than my Garmin. I agree that the tiles need to be faster, though.

[Johan]

The system needs to be be "smart" and predict where you are going next (easy if you have a destination entered, a bit more tricky when you are driving "freely") so that it loads tiles in priority, for example following the road you are on. For those of you who have test driven; does it behave like this?

[gmontem]

And yet, it had turn by turn guidance with the upcoming turn up by the speedo. My suspicion is that this is still unfinished, especially the offline part. It's already better than my Garmin. I agree that the tiles need to be faster, though.

What part of "the nav system on the 17" " do you not understand? I was speaking of that, not the navigation displayed in the speedometer. It should be common knowledge among TMC members by now that both the speedometer and the 17" operate independently. It's possible for the nav software in the speedo to be the offline Navigon and the 17" to be the online Google maps version.

[MikeK]

What part of "the nav system on the 17" " do you not understand? I was speaking of that, not the navigation displayed in the speedometer. It should be common knowledge among TMC members by now that both the speedometer and the 17" operate independently. It's possible for the nav software in the speedo to be the offline Navigon and the 17" to be the online Google maps version.

There's no call for such a rude tone.

Let me explain more clearly. We've been told that the display next to the speedo is only available with the tech package, with the turn by turn guidance. We've been told that the tech package includes offline maps. The car I photographed had turn by turn guidance with the display in the speedo. It also displayed a list of turns and volume controls for the spoken directions on the 17" display. And yet, it appeared to be using online tiles. Therefore, my suspicion that the offline maps are unfinished.