I plugged in an address today and the nav was unable to find it. The place of address was built about 3 years ago...I had to rely on Google maps to get there...Also the voice recognition sucks *****!

 

The manual said not to pull out the micro SD card...i havent tried but my gut feeling is that there must be a version tag on there...or in the nav settings I remember there is info thing in there which should tell the version for either the nav update and hopefully for the maps as well...Not at my car at the moment hope that helps a bit...

Ive been playing around with the voice recognition...seems like speaking a bit slower and more like a computer voice works out okay...I'm more pissed that I cant find addresses in that system. Guess I'll have to put a AUX cable in my car just in case! Do you know if I can tap into the car's speakers using USB rather than AUX?

 

My version is from June 2014, you can find the version info in the Nav menu.

 

Seems like Lexus just tagged it with a new date but the maps haven't been updated in over 3 yrs...

 

Yeah, there's a highway interchange near me that doesn't even look all that new (existed before I moved here last summer) and the maps have no idea it's there. Due to that, many times it takes me a very out-of-the-way direction to get places. Quite annoying.

I can't believe they also have the nerve to charge us over $100 for "updated" maps, too. It is why phone navigation tends to be the best, constantly updated maps for free...I just wish there was a way to control them from the in-dash screen. Sooner or later manufacturers, you hope, will start offering Here Maps or Google Maps built-in, or at least some sort of phone mirroring display system

 

Yea even when the nav works...I'm not even confident that it is the best/quickest path to the destination. I've taken the same roads to and from work for years and know everything about it...decide to use the Quick selection on the nav and it told me to get out a couple exits earlier than usual which puts in in local, thus taking longer to go home and uses more gas....

There is a ~$300 aftermarket thing you can install so that you can mirror and control your phone...I cant remember right now but it is in this forum though...

 

Map data is (from my experience) usually about 3 years old in the updates from Lexus, so a version released in 2013 would have maps from about 2010.

Jeff