Useless Navigation

[Ramit355]

I do not understand send and go?

 

[sandawilliams]

My nav has been junk since new. I learned early on to just use my portable tom tom.

 

[corneileous]

I didn’t even know about that send and go stuff until I googled it. Turns out you have to download the other Uconnect app, which is virtually the same as the other Uconnect app I have been using, but that other one has that added feature. The other app, the one I been using, does the same thing as far as the remote app for the starting, lock and unlock but it doesn’t have the virtual dashboard that shows your tire pressures, current mileage, oil change life and a couple other things. So I just kept both apps. That new one though, you just type in a place you’re looking for, and then send it to your nav. It’s kinda nice for when you’re driving because you have to be stopped if you wanna easily find **** just on the nav screen. This way you don’t have to.


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[corneileous]

Lemme correct that.... after playing around with my other Uconnect app, the one I’ve always had, I found out that you can still use the send and go stuff with it too. Just found that out a little bit ago. Down on the bottom of the screen where it shows “Info, Remote and Location”, click on location and that will bring up the map and either give you the option to show you where you are at, or where your vehicle is. At the bottom of that screen, there’s a search bar. Just type in whatever it is that you wanna go, click on the result on the list and the location on the map will be highlighted. Click on the box and it’ll show down at the bottom the address, along with the option to either call the selected place, or send the destination information to your navigation.


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[Ramit355]

Lemme correct that.... after playing around with my other Uconnect app, the one I’ve always had, I found out that you can still use the send and go stuff with it too. Just found that out a little bit ago. Down on the bottom of the screen where it shows “Info, Remote and Location”, click on location and that will bring up the map and either give you the option to show you where you are at, or where your vehicle is. At the bottom of that screen, there’s a search bar. Just type in whatever it is that you wanna go, click on the result on the list and the location on the map will be highlighted. Click on the box and it’ll show down at the bottom the address, along with the option to either call the selected place, or send the destination information to your navigation.


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Thank you. Have never tried to use the send and go function.

 

[Ramit355]

My nav has been junk since new. I learned early on to just use my portable tom tom.

My nav function on the 2011,2014 and the now the 2019 has always worked very well,just hate having to pull over while wife or who ever is riding shotgun to in put data where we are going....

 

[corneileous]

Thank you. Have never tried to use the send and go function.

You’re welcome. Yeah, up until yesterday I didn’t know what that was. I’ve seen that send and go icon in my Uconnect settings but since I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t pay it no mind. Lol.

It’s pretty neat, though. Works about the same way it does on my Garmin with my Garmin smart link app. Open the app, search for whatever it is you’re looking for, cast it to the device and click on it on the devices screen.


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[sandawilliams]

My nav function on the 2011,2014 and the now the 2019 has always worked very well,just hate having to pull over while wife or who ever is riding shotgun to in put data where we are going....

Your lucky. Mine drives around in circles in any large city and the POI's are useless. Couple that with the 149.00 map upgrades and my tom tom is a much better buy with free upgrades. I did a side by side comparison on a long trip to Newfoundland and the truck NAV was wrong most of the way and I finally gave up on it.

 

[K-Dawg]

Come on. NAV in vehicles AND on smart phones is a joke. I only turn them on when I go on trips so I can count the number of incorrect directions they give me. (27 on the last PA to FLA trip). AND they make people stupid. I've been in the vehicle with people who drive right past clearly marked turn-offs, exits, etc...because they're fumbling with their NAV app. Turn of the NAV and dumb-phone, do some research on your travel path/destination, and don't be afraid to .....GASP....Ask someone for directions...and use one of those sticks that ink comes out of and that flat white stuff (paper) to write it all down. Fool proof, requires no data plan, no satellite connectibility, no cell-tower link, no power. Just some planning and common sense. (sorry of the latter is in short supply in your social circle).

Rand McNally makes a damn fine paper map ($18 and you only need to buy one every couple years) and a 5 minute Google-Maps review of your destination BEFORE you leave the house is all you need.

And if you'd take your eyes off the NAV screen you'll find that there are these large metal things along the roads with all kinds of cool information (that matches the Rand McNally, Google Maps and directions you've already got)....they're called "Signs". You paid for them with your taxes, so you really should use them and get your money's worth. I've found them to be significantly more accurate than any NAV APP.

 

[adrianp89]

Come on. NAV in vehicles AND on smart phones is a joke. I only turn them on when I go on trips so I can count the number of incorrect directions they give me. (27 on the last PA to FLA trip). AND they make people stupid. I've been in the vehicle with people who drive right past clearly marked turn-offs, exits, etc...because they're fumbling with their NAV app. Turn of the NAV and dumb-phone, do some research on your travel path/destination, and don't be afraid to .....GASP....Ask someone for directions...and use one of those sticks that ink comes out of and that flat white stuff (paper) to write it all down. Fool proof, requires no data plan, no satellite connectibility, no cell-tower link, no power. Just some planning and common sense. (sorry of the latter is in short supply in your social circle).

Rand McNally makes a damn fine paper map ($18 and you only need to buy one every couple years) and a 5 minute Google-Maps review of your destination BEFORE you leave the house is all you need.

And if you'd take your eyes off the NAV screen you'll find that there are these large metal things along the roads with all kinds of cool information (that matches the Rand McNally, Google Maps and directions you've already got)....they're called "Signs". You paid for them with your taxes, so you really should use them and get your money's worth. I've found them to be significantly more accurate than any NAV APP.

Yeah - enjoy sitting in traffic. Nav has saved me from hours long interstate closures before, and probably saved me countless hours by re-routing me away from other car wrecks and slow construction zones. All stuff that occurred after I left my house.

A better idea is get with the 21st century and combine the benefits of nav, along with common sense using signs available. Plus I would rather have a screen right in front of me telling me where to go, rather than pulling out a paper map while driving... wonder whats safer... hmm...

 

[K-Dawg]

Looking at a screen instead of the road causes distracted driving accidents. Even when I have my NAV on (so I can laugh at it's mistakes and yell obscenities at the the lady telling me to take the wrong exit) I never look at a map or directions while driving. Only at rest stops, refueling stops, or, if necessary, pull into the break-down lane and take a peak.

Last trip from FLA to PA, there was a 2-hour delay for construction at the VA/WVA border (ahead of a tunnel). I decided to let the NAV try to get me around the obstruction, and it tried to take me 90 miles back the way I came. Even changed the settings for "shortest route"....it had no idea what to do with the local roads in WV. Rand McNally got me up and over the mountain, and back on the WV turnpike in 20 minutes (and narry a banjo note to be heard).

And your post ...."...screen right in front of me telling me where to go..." is most disturbing. In case you don't pay attention to the news....these "SCREENS" have told people to drive into lakes, off of unfinished bridges, into rivers, and on to bicycle trails/ocean boardwalks. Nobody "tells" me where to drive. I know where I'm going before I leave, and when the unexpected happens, I adapt, improvise, use my wits, road signs, maps and compas (yes that thing that tells you which way NORTH is) and sometimes talk to a real person who lives there and that almost ALWAYS gets me back on track in short order.

And if I happen to find myself temporarily "lost", that's normally a good excuse to finds a local establishment where I can find a cup of coffee, a piece of home-made pie, and some nice people who will point me to where I'm going.

 

[sandawilliams]

Looking at a screen instead of the road causes distracted driving accidents. Even when I have my NAV on (so I can laugh at it's mistakes and yell obscenities at the the lady telling me to take the wrong exit) I never look at a map or directions while driving. Only at rest stops, refueling stops, or, if necessary, pull into the break-down lane and take a peak.

Last trip from FLA to PA, there was a 2-hour delay for construction at the VA/WVA border (ahead of a tunnel). I decided to let the NAV try to get me around the obstruction, and it tried to take me 90 miles back the way I came. Even changed the settings for "shortest route"....it had no idea what to do with the local roads in WV. Rand McNally got me up and over the mountain, and back on the WV turnpike in 20 minutes (and narry a banjo note to be heard).

And your post ...."...screen right in front of me telling me where to go..." is most disturbing. In case you don't pay attention to the news....these "SCREENS" have told people to drive into lakes, off of unfinished bridges, into rivers, and on to bicycle trails/ocean boardwalks. Nobody "tells" me where to drive. I know where I'm going before I leave, and when the unexpected happens, I adapt, improvise, use my wits, road signs, maps and compas (yes that thing that tells you which way NORTH is) and sometimes talk to a real person who lives there and that almost ALWAYS gets me back on track in short order.

And if I happen to find myself temporarily "lost", that's normally a good excuse to finds a local establishment where I can find a cup of coffee, a piece of home-made pie, and some nice people who will point me to where I'm going.

That's another good point about a portable gps. My wife can enter the info without me having to do anything. Then I just follow the turn by turn voice directions. Keeps the eyes on the road. NOBODY tells you where to drive? You must not be married! Or at least sometimes the wife will tell me where to go.

 

[K-Dawg]

Oh no. I never take road trips with the wife. I also do not ask the dentist to perform an extra root canal (just for fun) or ask my doctor for a ****** exam (on a whim).

When we go to FLA for vacation, I drive (enjoy it) and put her on a plane, pick her up at the airport in FLA and head for the beach. My Maine destination (Moosehead Lake for off-the-grid cabin camping and grouse hunting in October) lacks some necessary amenities that precludes her attendance (things like running water, electricity, rodent free quarters and either a Kohl's, Target, or TJMaxx withing a 15 minute drive).

For those times that we venture out of the Western PA back-woods to go to some citified location where they tend to hold music concerts, sporting events and such, my tried and true method of not getting lost (don't go somewhere you haven't been before) keeps me from needing her to be tempted to give me directions from her hand-held idiot box.

 

[adrianp89]

Well to each their own - nav isn't for everybody. That includes you, and the idiots that don't use common sense while using it. For the rest us, it makes life easier and gets us to places quicker than we could on our own.

 

[runamuck]

I hardly ever enter a trip in the nav. I look up the destination online and then I just go there and refer to the nav screen when I get close and need to see the last few turns. I usually turn off the voice part of it as one of the first things I do when I buy a new vehicle. just too annoying to me and I dont mind glancing over at the screen every now and then. It's not really rocket science and the built-in nav is preferable to me over one more loose item around the dash when I'm driving. each to his own tho.

 

[JimGregory]

Oh no. I never take road trips with the wife. I also do not ask the dentist to perform an extra root canal (just for fun) or ask my doctor for a ****** exam (on a whim).

When we go to FLA for vacation, I drive (enjoy it) and put her on a plane, pick her up at the airport in FLA and head for the beach. My Maine destination (Moosehead Lake for off-the-grid cabin camping and grouse hunting in October) lacks some necessary amenities that precludes her attendance (things like running water, electricity, rodent free quarters and either a Kohl's, Target, or TJMaxx withing a 15 minute drive).

For those times that we venture out of the Western PA back-woods to go to some citified location where they tend to hold music concerts, sporting events and such, my tried and true method of not getting lost (don't go somewhere you haven't been before) keeps me from needing her to be tempted to give me directions from her hand-held idiot box.

You sound difficult to be around mister. No wonder she takes a plane.

 

[adrianp89]

Used nav to get me to a new restaurant downtown, it took me the long way to the interstate (4 exits south of where I normally get on)... got on 50 feet after a car wreck and looked like the interstate was at a standstill behind where we got on. Nav saved me at least a solid hour tonight.

 

[K-Dawg]

You sound difficult to be around mister. No wonder she takes a plane.

Only on the road trip, because it's full of those things I hate....what are they called.....oh....OTHER PEOPLE. Once we get to the beach, it's all good. I carry all her **** between the cabin and beach, and in exchange she doesn't ***** when I drink too much *** and ogle the bikinis. It's a formula that's responsible for 32 happy years of marriage....36 total years...but 32 happy ones.

 

[JimGregory]

Only on the road trip, because it's full of those things I hate....what are they called.....oh....OTHER PEOPLE. Once we get to the beach, it's all good. I carry all her **** between the cabin and beach, and in exchange she doesn't ***** when I drink too much *** and ogle the bikinis. It's a formula that's responsible for 32 happy years of marriage....36 total years...but 32 happy ones.

I had 30 good years then 1 bad one. Now on 6 good years and counting!

 

[Ramit355]

I had 30 good years then 1 bad one. Now on 6 good years and counting!

Well on 44 years and all is great my best friend for sure! Wish we would get in another 44 but life is way too short not to be happy no matter how many you have to go threw to get good ones or in my mind that is how it should be....I think i'm safe to say i will never know since I was bless with first one first time!