I've actually found the lane direction to be super helpful. My wife and I were recently driving in a new area, and the freeways and local roads were several lanes wide. Having the nav tell me ahead of time which lane I needed to be in to catch a particular exit was super helpful. Not that I couldn't have figured it out on my own, but having more information is helpful and definitely avoided some last minute lane changes.

 

Number of people that care about @xjokerz opinion on what they want in their navigation systems : 0

I have been driving since before Mapquest & printed out directions; the more help I can get with directions, the more I can focus on making sure the SUV in lane 3 swerving back and forth because they are using their phone with both hands doesn't hit me. And horns dont work, even air horns.

 

Makes life for me easier too.
I'm leaning about carplay but I have a Garmin GPS old school style that plugs in cigarete lighter and tells me what lane to be in.
Help me tremendously when ramps merge into other ramps and everyone driving so crazy at least I know what lane to be in.

 

I really like and appreciate these features on the BMW nav/HUD. They make things more relaxed and safe driving in unfamiliar areas. We recently took a road trip from Chicago to Charlotte and driving through Indianaoplis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Charlotte and the feature came in very handy.

 

Why are you making such a big deal out of this? Lol, we get it, you hate technology. You should just let people use whatever they want to use and mind your own business, it doesn't affect you in any way.

Have you ever seen someone cut several lanes at the last minute just to make their turn or exit? This will actually help prevent that.

 

It doesn't! If you are displaying the audio on the gauge display you can swipe up and down on the left hand thumbpad to forward or back track but thats the only way.

You obviously don't live anywhere that has really complex roads. The point of telling you what lane to be in is to help you more smoothly make your turn. Lots of roads today in crowded urban areas are VERY complicated to figure out what lane you are supposed to be in to take the exit you are trying to take, especially if you are travelling and not familiar with the interchange.

The issue here is you automatically go "technology, bad" and you don't take any time to consider the situation the technology is trying to improve.

Some people just have to pass judgement on what other people do.

The bottom line is, distractions aren't going away. We have to engineer ways to mitigate distractions.

 

Definitely. Unless one is in the situation, s/he can’t really understand/appreciate.

 

I'm not sure your qualifications to make this statement, but you are certainly entitled to your opinion, as wrong as it may be.

 

True, I live in a relatively small town but I've also lived in places that had tricky intersections. I've never once needed a device to tell me to be in the 2nd most right lane for a merge or whatever. It's nonsense but I don't expect you to agree. Of course you're going to think it's all great. There's no limit to what you consider great, useful tech that everyone should use.

While we're at it, why don't they create a system where you're driving on a road and you say "blinker right" and the car will automatically turn it on for you instead of lifting a finger. How about instead of using your foot to apply the brakes, you say something like "brake stop" and it'll gradually bring you to a stop. What else should be developed so we can become lazier and not needing to think for ourselves?

 

You don't NEED navigation to tell you that, but it telling you that can make navigating in a busy place you aren't familiar with much easier. Not everything has to fill a NEED. Life is full of things that we can in fact survive without.

No, I have no issue with development of any technology. But, there is no technology anybody can develop that you would think was useful. The only person telling people what they should and shouldn't like and what they should and shouldn't use is you. Nobody here is trying to convince you to use technology you don't want to use, but you are trying to tell us we are lazy foolish people for liking the technology we enjoy using. Just worry about yourself, if you want to live your life devoid of technology go for it, but it is beyond tiresome that every discussion of technology and features here becomes an argument for the very existence of technology because of you.

Why would we want to do any of that when automated driving systems will just do most of the driving for us? And you accused others of taking your viewpoint to the extreme by suggesting you use crank windows and listen to AM radio, but you are doing the same thing here.

And I am not lazy, nor do I have problems thinking for myself. I will put my work ethic and intelligence against anybody's, anytime.

 

If you vision was as bad as mine you will wonder how you ever drove without it.
I need it but even if I didn't I woud still want it, don't be a hat8r. lol

 

How is it extreme? You want to use navigation to know how to get somewhere, fine. I just honestly don't get why anyone needs to be told which lane they need to be in for making a turn or why they want to be babied every step of the way. You'll say you don't need it, but it's helpful. Doesn't it get old wanting to rely on a device to do anything for you?

Sign recognition is another one I don't get. The sign will come up on your instrument cluster like the S90 I drove a couple years ago.

 

I think some people (person) just enjoy playing devils advocate on this and related subjects.

 

I don’t consider using and enjoying technology that makes things easier for me to be a reliance on it. I can drive a car without those features no problem, although I would prefer not to. It’s not like I get into a car without traffic sign recognition and forget how to tell what the speed limit is.

Speaking of that technology, the point is that you always know what the speed limit is, you just look down at the gauge cluster. And the autonomous driving will maintain the speed limit for you if you want it to, or it will alert you when you exceed the speed limit by a set amount if you want it to.

Just because we like these technologies does not make us lazy. I pay someone to scrub my toilets, that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to scrub a toilet.

At the end of the day, you simply may choose not to use these technologies. I don’t understand why their existence makes you angry…like I’m not a big HUD person, I don’t particularly care for them. But, their existence doesn’t make me angry, nor am I upset that people like them.

My smart house would drive you nuts lol

 

Yeah, can't say I would ever want any of those things in my car. I feel much more relaxed when I'm not faced with screens and all these alerts. I get I'm one of the very few, especially for my age.

I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable about household smart tech but I've seen a few things. It's insane what they come out with. Yeah, I have no doubt your house would drive me crazy lol