Anyone paying for the for the built in connected Nav?

[macgyver60]

Use the app “a better route planner” as needed

I hadn’t used ABRP much in the past although Ive had the app for years. I just played around with it yesterday using the free version and I have to say its one if the clunkiest nav apps Ive ever tried. It may be helpful planning a trip in advance but once you start the trip there doesn’t seem to be a screen animation of the trip as you are driving. I may be missing something but I played around with it for a while and couldn’t get it to do that. A basic function like that shouldn’t be so hard to find.

So far, although far from imperfect, it seems like Apple maps is the closest thing I can find to a one app solution.

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[DustyShades]

I hadn’t used ABRP much in the past although Ive had the app for years. I just played around with it yesterday using the free version and I have to say its one if the clunkiest nav apps Ive ever tried. It may be helpful planning a trip in advance but once you start the trip there doesn’t seem to be a screen animation of the trip as you are driving. I may be missing something but I played around with it for a while and couldn’t get it to do that. A basic function like that shouldn’t be so hard to find.

So far, although far from imperfect, it seems like Apple maps is the closest thing I can find to a one app solution.

it is clunky, but it is the best route planner and once you start it will function the same way as Google maps. The rub is that you have to pay for it to work with CarPlay / android auto, but if I remember right it’s pretty cheap and you can just pay for the month of your roadtrip and then cancel.

Ford navigation has gotten a lot better, but ABRP still picks faster routes and is better at accounting for all the various factors last time I compared the two on a 1k mile roadtrip.

 

[phil]

Something I dislike about Ford Nav is that it makes you pick from a number of choices after you tell it what you want.

If you are already moving, this is problematic.

That's not problematic for me. I just say the number of the right choice and keep moving.

 

[mkhuffman]

it is clunky, but it is the best route planner and once you start it will function the same way as Google maps. The rub is that you have to pay for it to work with CarPlay / android auto, but if I remember right it’s pretty cheap and you can just pay for the month of your roadtrip and then cancel.

Ford navigation has gotten a lot better, but ABRP still picks faster routes and is better at accounting for all the various factors last time I compared the two on a 1k mile roadtrip.

I have a paid ABRP account, but I have also not used it for driving navigation. I tried but didn't Iike it. Maybe I will try it again. Don't you have to connect it to the OBDII port?

It is great for planning trips, though.

 

[DustyShades]

I have a paid ABRP account, but I have also not used it for driving navigation. I tried but didn't Iike it. Maybe I will try it again. Don't you have to connect it to the OBDII port?

It is great for planning trips, though.

I’ve never used the OBD II port. I think that just takes real time info from your car. The (paid) app itself does a pretty good job already taking into account weather, traffic and speed where I don’t think there is a lot of value in getting the vehicle data extracted from the OBD port. Only benefit would be that I feel sometimes ABRP is too conservative in its estimates and with real time inputs from the car maybe it could update your route and push you to a further away charger if it realizes you’re beating it’s predetermined efficiency pace

 

[mkhuffman]

I’ve never used the OBD II port. I think that just takes real time info from your car. The (paid) app itself does a pretty good job already taking into account weather, traffic and speed where I don’t think there is a lot of value in getting the vehicle data extracted from the OBD port. Only benefit would be that I feel sometimes ABRP is too conservative in its estimates and with real time inputs from the car maybe it could update your route and push you to a further away charger if it realizes you’re beating it’s predetermined efficiency pace

The Ford nav provides real time updates to the estimated SOCD at destination. I was thinking maybe ABRP can do that if connected directly to the car. I might try it out this week.

 

[azerik]

Are you saying it's going to revert to as built?

I'm not sure how that's possible as I let my nav expire in January and got the updated BC maps AAT 2 weeks ago or so. I can't comment on roads disappearing but I don't think it's stacking or reverting the maps.

The Ford nav provides real time updates to the estimated SOCD at destination. I was thinking maybe ABRP can do that if connected directly to the car. I might try it out this week.

Yeah ABRP sells it like this but I see far more selling these days than working. I think ABRP is just using SOC and some sampling of current consumption to come up with the numbers.

 

[mkhuffman]

Yeah ABRP sells it like this but I see far more selling these days than working. I think ABRP is just using SOC and some sampling of current consumption to come up with the numbers.

Have you tried it for live navigation? Last time I did I was not impressed. But that was a long time ago. I am sure they have improved something in that time.

 

[azerik]

Not with the shitshow GPS i have going on with my 15proMads

 

[Jerrytball]

I don’t know if this is new news or old news. I just happen to see it today.

Things could change soon, as Google has recently been caught working on incident reporting for the CarPlay version of the app. References in a recent Google Maps build prove the feature is coming, though the ETA is still unknown.

This means the Mountain View-based tech firm will soon allow CarPlay users to send traffic reports in Google Maps as in Waze. The application will likely support the same report types, such as accidents, speed traps, and other generic submissions.

I know what you think. If Google brings incident reporting to Google Maps on CarPlay, essentially stepping into Waze territory, it could be a step to merge the two apps.

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