In-Dash Nav Systems Look to Outsmart Phone Apps

The future, according to carmakers, does not include using your built-in navigation system as a stand for your smartphone and its Google Maps app.

These systems, though currently less smart and far more clunky than their app counterparts, are expected to record more data, learn your preferences, update over the air, and help develop autonomous vehicles. Future map and other products will connect to the cloud and will be easily updated and upgraded, and data will be collected from a vehicle’s cameras and sensors as well as neighboring vehicles. These data points will only increase in importance when applied to autonomous cars.

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