Excited because the dealership was able to vacuum most of the water out from the interior of my Infiniti M35x (due to a leak in the sunroof drain system, which took two Infiniti dealers three years to debug, it used to smell like mildew; now it smells like mildew and the alcohol that they used, a month ago, to try to remove the mildew), I decided to splurge on an updated Navteq 7.5 map and point of interest DVD. It cost $120 including tax and delivery, i.e., about the same as a portable Garmin or Droid phone. The Navteq DVD was released in 2009, so I figured maybe it would have a better database than the 2006 DVD included with the car. I popped the new DVD in and tried searching for my friendly local hardware store. This is a small neighborhood place that we call “The Natick Home Depot”. It hadn’t been in the old database. Nor was it on the new disk, which did have directions to some Home Depots, but not the one in Natick, MA. Perhaps the store was fairly new. I called them up and asked when it was established. The woman who answered the phone said “I’ve worked here for 9 years, but the store has been here for about 15.”
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This is why I refuse to get pure-profit dash nav systems. GPS linked phones will not only be up to date, but be able to give you aerial/street views. A GPS will give you a better database and no need for a phone tower.
I realized at some point a few years ago that anything on a car, or an electronic device as a matter of fact, that makes you say “Wow, cool!” will later come back to bite you in the ass.
Mostly because something that makes you step back and say “Wow, cool!” is new.
But, it’s not new because no one ever thought about it before. Thinking about it and building it, that’s what engineers love to do. The issue is, making it reliable.
90% of the time, something new is not new because they finally found a way to make it work, but rather because they finally decided to include it because it’s a cool selling point, even though eventually it’s going to break.
So I get myself mid-priced popular sedans. They’re not going to include anything on them that might kill me or break too easily (excepting toyota), because they just can’t afford to pay off the lawsuits for all the dudes like me that eventually die or complain because of their bogus feature. Incentives! I’m like a Zebra in the middle of the herd. The ones on the outside get to run faster but they also get picked off by lions.