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Praise High, For Google Maps Is Coming To Volvos

May 8, 2018 jalopnik Leave a Comment

While Volvo’s overall infotainment systems are widely hailed as some of the best out there, its navigation system, specifically, is known to be crap. But Volvo wants to remedy that. So now, if you can get one, your next Volvo will have Google Maps instead. That really is like going from the bottom to the top in one fell swoop. Being in a Volvo these days is a joy. Your behind is swaddled on the most sumptuous leather, your hands fall on little bits of milled aluminum and even crystal, and your ears are sublimely, violently assaulted by the joy that is the Gothenburg Concert Hall sound setting. Everything is lovely, everything is perfect, except for PilotAssist and that dastardly navigation system. I’m sure Volvo is working on PilotAssist because it has to be, but a navigation system is possibly an even bigger problem. Self-driving cars are a ways off, if they ever get here. No one outside of the most insufferable tech bro is demanding the technology right here, right now. But a competent navigation system that doesn’t make you drive through 18 of Dante’s nine circles of hell when a shorter, faster, easier route already exists? That’s what people care about, but building an entirely new navigation system from scratch is a nightmare. If you don’t believe me, ask Apple. Despite having essentially infinite money, Apple Maps is still very much a work in progress. If you can’t beat them, then, join them. Google Maps, by virtue of… [Read full story]




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