A few months ago I headed to FL with the girls for a visit to the Grandparents. I did a little test to compare the cars GPS with that on the iPhone, both to see if they suggested the same path and to generally see how useful they were.
The big difference of course is traffic data. Now I know some of the newest in car systems have live traffic data but mine doesn’t and without it I would have wasted a few hours sitting in traffic. I have one picture from the iPhone to illustrate the value of traffic data.
Without that data I would have sat in that red traffic for at least an hour but probably longer. I of course never knew what the issue was but with that warning I safely hopped off ahead of the slow down and cruised past it on a parallel highway at around 60mph so I barely lost any time.
So in my case the cars GPS is cool and has its value but the next time I go to buy a car I don’t think I would consider one unless it has live traffic (and maybe weather). With the iPhone and most any other modern smartphone you have all this in your hand so even if the car can match it I am not sure it would be worth the extra expense.
