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"True that."

"Double True!"]]>Feb 3rd 2006 4:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/
I think navigation systems are stupid anyways, their a pointless gizmo that will crapup on you after 5 years and be so out of date in 10 people will laugh at your car because of it, just like they laugh at the 1990 Pontiac Bonneville SSE and it's silly DIC system. Putting a navigation system in a car doesn't make it more reliable it just makes it appeal to stupid people who can't use a regular map. VW should be figuring out how to make expensive german cars that DON'T fall appart, it seems sometime around 1993 they forgot...

My $10 paper map book works fine for me.]]>Feb 3rd 2006 4:55PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://gorillamask.net/snlnarnia.shtml]]>Feb 3rd 2006 4:56PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/
Whenever Google updates either Google Local or Google Earth, this gets updated when you connect it to the Internet.]]>Feb 3rd 2006 5:31PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Feb 3rd 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Ohhh...that was the greatest post ever, Noah, bravo !
You may stick to your 10$ paper map book, other people that live in the 21st century might use a nav. system and enjoy it (like myself: born and raised in another nation, in another continent, and now in the USA...). I hope it hasn't been too distressing for you to let go of your horse and carriage, it shouldn't have been. And trust me, it won't be as well when you let go of your paper map book: the 21st century and its technology it's mostly quite user-friendly, do not be afraid, kiddo.
One last thing, mr. genius, does it seem to you appropriate to be meddling with a map when you are driving ? Concentrate and the answer will magically appear in your brain. It doesn't ? Well let me answer for you then: NO !
Go get a life and a bit of self esteem (you seem so much concerned about people laughing at this or that, are you THAT insecure as a person ???), good luck.

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I suggest you try one first, I bet ya your map doesn't have the POI's that Navs have. That is Point of Interest for you (a database of hotels, restaurants, gas stations, etc.) They even include phone numbers, aside from the location. in case you want to pre-order a to-go.

You can forget my suggestion and stick with your maps. But I bet you'll eat your words in five years time. Navs are here to stay. ]]>Feb 4th 2006 1:43AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Feb 4th 2006 6:57AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/
When I ask for directions home, I'll end up at an epoxy plant twenty miles away in the suburbs! And that Chinese restaurant, I like? Who knew it was in a residential area three blocks from my house. I sure didn't. Every time I actually ate there I had to go to the shopping center a mile and a half away.

Satnav? Great! Google Earth? Needs some work. (But I do feel I'm getting my money's worth from it.)]]>Feb 4th 2006 8:09AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Feb 4th 2006 8:07PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Saw a demo unit in a shop in Osaka. It looked all the world like a Daytona arcade game, but very realistic.]]>Feb 6th 2006 9:42AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Sep 28th 2006 2:21AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/
http://www.moviepicturecars.com/]]>Nov 13th 2006 1:42PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/Oct 1st 2007 4:54AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/03/vw-to-use-google-earth-for-the-best-in-navigation-technology/]]>Apr 28th 2008 2:18AM