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by Sohcahtoa82 267 days ago
Arrow points up, map is displayed with a slight perspective.

If there is no perspective, then at the very least, the car is about halfway between the middle of the screen and the bottom of it. I care far more about what's in front of me than what's behind me.

What I really hate is that the nav in my Tesla will typically show a perspective view while navigating, but as I approach a turn, it changes to a top-down view and zooms in, often to the point where the actual turn is no longer even on the screen, so I don't know where I'm actually supposed to go anymore.

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Ouch! Whatever representation you agree on, the one thing you don't do is changing everything and throwing the driver out of their context at random.

And that applies to high-level apps (like a spam phone call) stealing the screen too.