TechnoRide
recently navigated using OnStar’s new “Turn-by-Turn” navigation system to see how it worked. Turn-by-Turn
works by OnStar downloading a route’s directions into the vehicle. Voice prompts are uttered where to go, turn, etc.,
like a standard navigation system. TechnoRide used a Cadillac STS as their test vehicle.
The driver found
the system worked. Voice prompts would notify when approaching a turn and which direction to go. But lack of visual
cues, either maps or text, could make things confusing. And if the driver misunderstood the directions and had to turn
around, OnStar would notify them, for example, to turn ‘south’ and leave it to the driver to figure out where ‘south’
was.
General Motors, which owns OnStar, plans to roll out the Turn-by-Turn option for all its 2007 vehicles.
Pricing has not been announced thought it’s expected to match a similar feature available on cellphones.
[Source: TechnoRide]