What’s Wrong With This Picture: Das Kindermädchen Edition

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• 	Micheal Blue June 30th, 2009 at 7:56 am
  Is this the one that turns on the turn lights and then turns the steering wheel if the driver fails to do all that in time? Here in Toronto I see many cars having these sheep guidance systems. I can understand using this stuff driving in a complex unfamiliar place, but otherwise it’s just mind-numbing stuff. People, learn how to use maps – it exercises your sense of direction, your orientation, and your memory.
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• 	Anchorman33 June 30th, 2009 at 8:30 am
  It looks like the detail pic on the left shows a road that dead ends, only allowing a righ turn exit or left turn into another road. The big map on the right shows a continuous road going straight. Guess it processed so fast it allows for a bending of the space-time continum.
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• 	crackers June 30th, 2009 at 9:02 am
  There is far too much information on the screen. A driver needs to be able to quickly glance at the display and get an immediate impression of what he should do next. This display is so badly cluttered that a driver has to examine the display for too long. This is classic, bad human interface design that could actually contribute to an accident. The software guys have been allowed to run amok without considering how the end user will actually use the product.
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• 	commando1 June 30th, 2009 at 9:15 am
  Has anybody tried to navigate the post-“Big Dig” downtown Boston with a GPS lately? Nine times out of ten you end up in either Boston Harbor or in the lobby of The John Hancock Tower.
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• 	HEATHROI June 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am
  My wife’s Parents visited recently and dad is a great believer in maps have probably about 4 dozen of various types to plan his route from Florida to Illinois – The M.I.L brought a GPS to simplify everything (and dispose of the maps) Be damned if he was using that thing. Of course he got lost once he left the interstate for an overnight stop in Tennessee.
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• 	yankinwaoz June 30th, 2009 at 11:07 am
  With an interface like that you need a full time navigator on board.
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• 	TonyJZX June 30th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
  is the USAF about to drop a Tomahawk cruise missile on downtown Berlin? it makes the moving map displays on an F15E look clear
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• 	PhotoJim June 30th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
  @Michael Blue: I was in St. John’s, Newfoundland at the end of May/beginning of June. It’s an old city, the oldest English-settled one in North America in fact. The roads go everywhere in the older part of the city. It’s really challenging to drive there at first. I have a GPS nav system that I took with me to use. I depended on it heavily at first. It thought my hotel was across the street from where it was, and a block down, but I still found it easily enough. By the end of our first week I could drive around the city without help. I didn’t always take the most efficient route, but I could drive around. I found that the map on the nav system helped me to get a lot of perspective. So… I don’t think nav systems necessarily create brainless driving. They’re a tool to make life easier. I should note that when I get new nav systems (I have a factory one in my ’07 Accord also) I practice with it at home first. The best way to know how reliable these systems are is to use it on roads that you know.
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• 	Bertel Schmitt June 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
  If I’m not totally mistaken, then this is the Autobahn exit Ingolstadt-Nord , only a few km from Audi itself …..
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• 	MidLifeCelica June 30th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
  Of course the crossed knife and fork mean ‘food’, and the yellow Shell symbols are obviously gas stations, but what do the two logos of what appear to be 7-legged bulls shooting flames out their noses represent? I think the name is something like ‘Aglia’ or ‘Ajula’ but it’s so hard to tell with these tiny pictures.
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• 	John Holt June 30th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
  @BS – good eye! I was there just last week. IIRC this looks like the car is actually positioned on Romerstrasse, and the detail is of the surface street intersection, not the cloverleaf. If confused, the driver can do a U-turn and go ask for more help from their friendly Audi Forum sales guide.
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• 	Johann July 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 am
  @midlifeCelica Agip is an Italian fuel brand. http://www.agip.eni.it These new sat navs do have way too much information on them. But do remember that on an Audi this screen is suplimented by a minimalist screen between the dails only showing arrows and the most basic of information. So you need only look at that most of the time and only need the central map screen when you need more information. eg: http://www.vwcruise.com/resources/Audi+a4+023.jpg
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