Disappointed in my Gen 4...

Actually if you are using your phone, Google Maps seems very good too.

 

I'm in the minority. I actually like the Toyota Nav because it works well with the HUD. If another system could be tied into the HUD, I suppose I'd try that, too. I love the HUD, it's far less distracting to me than Google Maps. I've never had a Garmin or similar, so I can't compare that.

 

I like to Toyota Nav too, just wish our UK cars had the HUD integration

 

Face lift Gen 3 no less

 

Not in HUD, but you can get turn by turn directions on the MFD.
I quite like the Toyota Nav, it is counter intuitive in some respects, but it's not as complicated as my TomTom, there's no trailing wires and the screen is big, although the TomTom is always up to date. I find it's easier to plan a route on the MyToyota website route planner and download it to the car, rather than fiddle around with the Nav itself, same with the TomTom.

 

Yes, the MFD is a compromise though I feel, would much prefer it in the HUD.

I have planned routes online before to download to the car, but I can only seem to get them to be routed from home. One week we went to view some houses so I put all the addresses in online to navigate to after we had run some errands, but when I chose the first address it wanted to take me home first, then navigate to the address which seemed mad, especially as the address was quite near to where I was..... am I missing something?

 

The Garmin prompts to verify you want to start from your current location. You are missing a good GPS system.

 

GPS/Navigation - I read in a few places reports along the lines of "But could that mean ... that our hippocampi will shrink if we rely on GPS instead of mental and paper maps, and that such shrinkage could even lead to dementia ...".

Are Google Maps and GPS Bad for Our Brains? | UC Geography

Oh yes - I use a portable GPS - I've mounted it in front of the steering wheel in that empty space. I leave it there in case I forget where I've put it. It's a cheap one from ALDI, works fine for the few times I use it.

 

Is it possible to get lost in Oz, Alan? It's only the bigger twin to Tax, isn't it?

 

TBH I've not tried multiple separate routes, but I have entered routes with stop overs.
Are you sure it's trying to take you home, or is it just trying to put you somewhere on the downloaded route ?
Like when you go off route, it tells you to do a u-turn a couple of times before it decides to re-calculate the route (lazy ******).

 

The newer Garmins quit telling you to make a U-Turn. They automatically recalculate the route which may or may not require a U-Turn. They also quit saying "Recalculating..." when recalculating the route. Less annoyances overall FTW!

 

Stop overs, thats what I meant

I checked the route and it wanted to take me home. If I put them in using the Sat Nav screen they work OK, its just doing them from home and sending to the car that it gets confused.

 

Oh - never thought of doing more than one thing at once - I'm told it's a gender thing.

[seriously, though, as a Business Manager in a large High School for 24 years, my brain was continually multi-tasking, no wonder it's worn out now - just never tried it with a Sat Nav.]

 

IIRC you have to put stop overs in in a certain order or it takes you to the final destination first. I seem to remember that the journey planner wasn't very intuitive in the way it works (a bit like the nav itself)

 

Speaking of gender things.

If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman to hear him... Is he still wrong?

 

That may take off, lol.

 

I may get flamed by some like @pilotgrrl though.

Then again, she may answer us.

 

I'm saying - nothing

 

I getting more pissed by the day with my Prius 4 touring , bought at Ganley Toyota in Arron Ohio . Car was fine until i had a sever noise when braking [ last 100 feet or so ] they checked it out and said they did nothing BS !!! MPG dropped out the bottom and now i getting a sever vibration and sounds like a old John Deere tractor on smooth road for first 10 mile then it go away .[ checked tire pressur and ok ] Some days i will get a beep beep beep warning but is see nothing on the dash , only does it for about 5 seconds and it is faint not like a loud warning sound

 

Call Toyota!