Products · Pattern or everyday thing
GPS navigation
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with GPS navigation, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Rotating maps don't match the user's mental model of north-up navigation2024-12-25
- Position is off by about 20m and compass wrong by 90 degrees after exiting stations2023-05-13
- Keeps rerouting over and over when driving somewhere familiar, forcing the user to turn it off2022-11-02
- No advanced routing options, so users must accept routes with unwanted turns and tolls2017-04-18
- Looking at the screen too often is disorienting because it lags behind actual position2016-12-20
- Spoken turn commands with wrong map data lead drivers into one-way streets2016-02-15
- Fiddling with the GPS interface is cumbersome and interrupts conversations with unnecessary directions2015-01-24