sakimano
Active Member
I received the 2018.12 a couple of weeks ago.
When navigating today I noticed that I too have the new navigation software. Maps on the big screen frankly looked identical as previously noted.
Changes seemed to be
1. New voice (arguably worse and more androgynous.. To steal a line from Jeremy Clarkson she sounds a bit like a warden at a women's prison)
2. Lots of active labelling of road names / streets when navigating somewhere, only on the gauge cluster. This is nice and is appreciated.
Overall I Dont really think it's worth this much hype. If you don't have it yet don't feel bad.
Also interesting to note, the behaviour persists where the car defaults to 70 max speed in autopilot despite obviously being on a 50 km long stretch of 80 kmh highway, because it either hasnt seen a speed limit sign yet, or in some time. Really terrible programming. Why can I set autopilot to 45kmh over the limit on a major highway yet I can't set it to even equal the limit on a rural highway because of a poor limitation of the software. If speed limits are gps based it ought to know there's an 80 sign just a km back before I joined this road , even though I didn't pass it.
Also I didn't receive any notification of the update.
The photo below shows the new labelling and the annoying 70 limit.
When navigating today I noticed that I too have the new navigation software. Maps on the big screen frankly looked identical as previously noted.
Changes seemed to be
1. New voice (arguably worse and more androgynous.. To steal a line from Jeremy Clarkson she sounds a bit like a warden at a women's prison)
2. Lots of active labelling of road names / streets when navigating somewhere, only on the gauge cluster. This is nice and is appreciated.
Overall I Dont really think it's worth this much hype. If you don't have it yet don't feel bad.
Also interesting to note, the behaviour persists where the car defaults to 70 max speed in autopilot despite obviously being on a 50 km long stretch of 80 kmh highway, because it either hasnt seen a speed limit sign yet, or in some time. Really terrible programming. Why can I set autopilot to 45kmh over the limit on a major highway yet I can't set it to even equal the limit on a rural highway because of a poor limitation of the software. If speed limits are gps based it ought to know there's an 80 sign just a km back before I joined this road , even though I didn't pass it.
Also I didn't receive any notification of the update.
The photo below shows the new labelling and the annoying 70 limit.
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