Navigation system totally unreliable
01-05-2019, 06:45 AM
#1
Navigation system totally unreliable
We have just completed a 2000 mile trip from Canada to Florida. We Have found the navigation system to be unreliable at best. In four locations that we previously set as stops it was off on our final destination by 180°. I think this on unacceptable and thank God we had CarPlay. I don’t know if this is unique to our car but looking for a hotel in the dark in a strange city is not to humorous. Each and every time it was 180° Nearing final destination off no matter how put it was inputted! Audi should be ashamed. I don’t suppose there’s any cure for this. If anyone can offer advice please let us know. I am highly pissed! We should have not bothered with the package! Does anyone else have the same problem?
my previous 2016 Q5 worked like a charm! Went to Alaskan pan handle without a hiccup! This 2018 s crap and dangerous!
cheers.
my previous 2016 Q5 worked like a charm! Went to Alaskan pan handle without a hiccup! This 2018 s crap and dangerous!
cheers.
01-05-2019, 08:44 AM
#2
AudiWorld Super User
We have just completed a 2000 mile trip from Canada to Florida. We Have found the navigation system to be unreliable at best. In four locations that we previously set as stops it was off on our final destination by 180°. I think this on unacceptable and thank God we had CarPlay. I don’t know if this is unique to our car but looking for a hotel in the dark in a strange city is not to humorous. Each and every time it was 180° Nearing final destination off no matter how put it was inputted! Audi should be ashamed. I don’t suppose there’s any cure for this. If anyone can offer advice please let us know. I am highly pissed! We should have not bothered with the package! Does anyone else have the same problem?
my previous 2016 Q5 worked like a charm! Went to Alaskan pan handle without a hiccup! This 2018 s crap and dangerous!
cheers.
cheers.
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01-05-2019, 09:30 AM
#3
AudiWorld Senior Member
I have not had any problem with the nav system getting me to the right place. My problems are
1 - estimated arrival times are too long. The estimates are worse the more you drive on secondary roads. Estimated travel times appear to be pretty good for highways but I guess they assume you will drive very slow on secondary roads.
2 - the weighting of the routing algorithms are too heavily biased to main roads, so much so that traffic rerouting rarely considers local streets or neighborhoods and if you know them and use them it takes quite a while for the nav to agree with you and not tell you to turn around or get back on the clogged highway. I can understand this to some extent and WAZE is getting dinged for routing too much traffic through neighborhoods but Audi has gone too far in the other direction.
3 - Entering addresses by voice is hit or miss unless you use the online Google search. It should be better, my wife's Subaru Outback is much better.
1 - estimated arrival times are too long. The estimates are worse the more you drive on secondary roads. Estimated travel times appear to be pretty good for highways but I guess they assume you will drive very slow on secondary roads.
2 - the weighting of the routing algorithms are too heavily biased to main roads, so much so that traffic rerouting rarely considers local streets or neighborhoods and if you know them and use them it takes quite a while for the nav to agree with you and not tell you to turn around or get back on the clogged highway. I can understand this to some extent and WAZE is getting dinged for routing too much traffic through neighborhoods but Audi has gone too far in the other direction.
3 - Entering addresses by voice is hit or miss unless you use the online Google search. It should be better, my wife's Subaru Outback is much better.
01-05-2019, 09:33 AM
#4
AudiWorld Member
I plug my phone in to use CarPlay and Waze also. It works out a lot better for me with where I live and what I do.
Having to to connect the phone each time is a annoyance but I use the CarPlay music streaming apps too so I have just gotten used to it.
Having to to connect the phone each time is a annoyance but I use the CarPlay music streaming apps too so I have just gotten used to it.
01-05-2019, 12:51 PM
#5
AudiWorld Senior Member
For me, the big irritant is having to change the state when you cross a state line.
01-05-2019, 01:02 PM
#6
AudiWorld Super User
I have not had any problem with the nav system getting me to the right place. My problems are
1 - estimated arrival times are too long. The estimates are worse the more you drive on secondary roads. Estimated travel times appear to be pretty good for highways but I guess they assume you will drive very slow on secondary roads.
2 - the weighting of the routing algorithms are too heavily biased to main roads, so much so that traffic rerouting rarely considers local streets or neighborhoods and if you know them and use them it takes quite a while for the nav to agree with you and not tell you to turn around or get back on the clogged highway. I can understand this to some extent and WAZE is getting dinged for routing too much traffic through neighborhoods but Audi has gone too far in the other direction.
3 - Entering addresses by voice is hit or miss unless you use the online Google search. It should be better, my wife's Subaru Outback is much better.
1 - estimated arrival times are too long. The estimates are worse the more you drive on secondary roads. Estimated travel times appear to be pretty good for highways but I guess they assume you will drive very slow on secondary roads.
2 - the weighting of the routing algorithms are too heavily biased to main roads, so much so that traffic rerouting rarely considers local streets or neighborhoods and if you know them and use them it takes quite a while for the nav to agree with you and not tell you to turn around or get back on the clogged highway. I can understand this to some extent and WAZE is getting dinged for routing too much traffic through neighborhoods but Audi has gone too far in the other direction.
3 - Entering addresses by voice is hit or miss unless you use the online Google search. It should be better, my wife's Subaru Outback is much better.
perhaps the OP car needs to recalibrate the compass. Owners manual covers it IIRC
01-05-2019, 07:00 PM
#7
Nope it’s fine
cheers
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01-07-2019, 05:41 AM
#9
AudiWorld Super User
as well as standard Apple maps. Have yet to find one significantly better, or worse, than the other. It is completely dependent on the area that you drive in. There are multiple times Waze simply wont load the info, but Apple maps pulls it right up. Also, in the area I tend to be in, Waze routinely tells me I’ve arrived, when there is still half a block to go. In an urban setting, that can be annoying at best. All have worked and also let me down.
To each their own.
01-07-2019, 05:57 AM
#10
AudiWorld Super User
I’ve extensively used both in my S4,
as well as standard Apple maps. Have yet to find one significantly better, or worse, than the other. It is completely dependent on the area that you drive in. There are multiple times Waze simply wont load the info, but Apple maps pulls it right up. Also, in the area I tend to be in, Waze routinely tells me I’ve arrived, when there is still half a block to go. In an urban setting, that can be annoying at best. All have worked and also let me down.
To each their own.