[AIMunchkin]

Au contraire, I much prefer my 2016 car's built-in navigation system with consistent performance and features to the ADHD ever-changing, signal-dependent, random notifiers asking stupid questions, craptastic voice input, arbitrarily failing navigation apps of the two major mobile providers.

I don't WANT to update my navigation system. That's exactly what I HATE about Google Maps etc. In fact, I have gone so far as to opt out of updating my car's system to enable Android Auto after I tried it out in a rental and found it to be an epic bowl of buggy fail that nearly got me in an accident.

And of course, that didn't stop the Android team from breaking basic Bluetooth support in Android 7.0.1 on my Nexus 5x because they're go-getters in that department.

My car is a useful device that I need to count on daily, not a @#$%ing mobile app like Candy Crush.

[stinkytaco]

But will you three years from now? I get what you are saying, but you are comparing a 2016 nav system to a phone. If you've got a nav system that's a few years old it's a headache (and possibly costly) to update, might be missing features in newer nav systems or might simply be broken and outrageous to fix (a problem that could also apply to an Android Auto head unit, to be fair, but at least you have a backup then).

[AIMunchkin]

In my case, I'm still quite happy with the Nav system in my wife's 2009 Rav 4 actually. It works as intended to this day. It's missing some fanciness, but I'm just not about the fancy.

[city41]

The issue is updating the system with new maps. My car's nav system is now about two years old and I find about 1 in every 20 addresses or so it doesn't recognize.

Overall I do feel built in nav systems offer the best experience, I just wish car manufacturers could figure out a better update process.

[AIMunchkin]

100% agreed, given that newer cars now have 4G connectivity, one ought to be able to subscribe for a modest fee to download it.

[r00fus]

Sounds like your complaint is half against Android Auto (and Android in general).

I wonder if it would be cost effective for you to simply have another dedicated device and data line if you get a Bolt? Reusing an older device ($0) + $10/mo data sounds better for even 5 years of service (10125) = $600 vs. $2000 for nav system.

[AIMunchkin]

True, but more likely I suspect is that in 2018 and beyond they'll offer a navigation option. Then again, they still don't offer blind spot indicators on the corvette so who knows?

As for me, I just bought a car this year, and while the next one will be electric, I'm pretty happy with the current set of wheels.