New Car -- Nav system or not?

BCEagle91
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:56:03 +0000

As far as built in ones not working when you drive, there is a reason for that, it is to
stop the many idiots who will try and set it when running, it was done like that
deliberately. One of the downsides of the portable units is that drivers will do exactly
that, be fiddling with it while driving, another distraction…



Our portable gave us a warning and asked if we wanted to override the setting. My son was doing the routing on the GPS. We discovered the voice mode later inadvertently and after that, I (or someone else in the car) just used voice commands for routing.

I didn’t know that in-car systems completely disabled routing while you are moving. What if you have someone in the passenger seat trying to do the routing? Does this mean that you have to pull over somewhere to do the routing?