Products · Pattern or everyday thing
In-car navigation
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with In-car 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 9 complaints
- In-car navigation software is poor in every brand tested2026-09-25
- Built-in car navigation and infotainment are unfamiliar, costly to update, and distracting2024-11-25
- Voice guidance talks over ongoing conversations with things already known2023-01-24
- Entering an address takes minutes via a knob, one letter at a time2022-09-28
- Built-in car navigation has worse user experience than phone map apps2022-08-17
- Finding and getting map updates in the car is extremely hard to figure out2022-05-10
- Built-in GPS maps must be updated at a dealership for a fee2021-09-07
- Touch-screen navigation is dangerous and cumbersome to use while driving2017-09-20
- Built-in car nav UI is terrible and can't receive addresses from the user's phone2009-12-22