Dubluvin life
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH
Took my first real road trip this weekend in the new GTI Sport. I'm very happy with my decision save some dough and opt for the Sport over the Autobahn. CarPlay worked flawlessly and the Apple Maps was good. Yes, like everyone on the planet, I'd rather that there was an option to use Google Maps, but that's not going to happen.
Trip consisted of a 7 hour drive to Snowshoe Ski Resort in WV from Cincinnati, OH. If there ever was a pretty good test of a navigation system this drive would be it. There is no easy direct way to Snowshoe and you end up taking a lot of state routes and back roads. There are several ways to go and any GPS is horrible at getting you there cleanly. I've never been there so I was relying on a combination of some directions (provided by my brother who has been there several times) and the GPS. Being in the mountains of backwater WV means bad cell coverage, etc. I also had to drive at night during the rain/ice (I arrived at 2AM). Snowshoe was just finishing up with Winterstorm Stella and the last two hours are really twisting turns.
Needless to say I was putting a lot of faith in the fact the CarPlay GPS would function as needed. Not just to help with directions, but help on which way the road was turning and how hard of a turn.
I didn't have a single issue with CarPlay. Navigation worked great and even when I lost my cell signal it continued to operate and show the road. Sometimes some of the terrain detail around the road would disappear, but the road and important stuff was there. Music played along and sometimes podcasts... all with GPS instructions, never missing a beat.
Full disclosure... I did have a Garmin GPS tucked in the glove box just in case. I'm not crazy and I had my 13 year old son with me. Getting lost at night in the middle of nowhere WV would not have gone well.
End result was a great weekend of skiing. CarPlay worked just as well on the way back. In the end I'll take this over the in car Navigation... even with Apple Maps as the option.
Trip consisted of a 7 hour drive to Snowshoe Ski Resort in WV from Cincinnati, OH. If there ever was a pretty good test of a navigation system this drive would be it. There is no easy direct way to Snowshoe and you end up taking a lot of state routes and back roads. There are several ways to go and any GPS is horrible at getting you there cleanly. I've never been there so I was relying on a combination of some directions (provided by my brother who has been there several times) and the GPS. Being in the mountains of backwater WV means bad cell coverage, etc. I also had to drive at night during the rain/ice (I arrived at 2AM). Snowshoe was just finishing up with Winterstorm Stella and the last two hours are really twisting turns.
Needless to say I was putting a lot of faith in the fact the CarPlay GPS would function as needed. Not just to help with directions, but help on which way the road was turning and how hard of a turn.
I didn't have a single issue with CarPlay. Navigation worked great and even when I lost my cell signal it continued to operate and show the road. Sometimes some of the terrain detail around the road would disappear, but the road and important stuff was there. Music played along and sometimes podcasts... all with GPS instructions, never missing a beat.
Full disclosure... I did have a Garmin GPS tucked in the glove box just in case. I'm not crazy and I had my 13 year old son with me. Getting lost at night in the middle of nowhere WV would not have gone well.
End result was a great weekend of skiing. CarPlay worked just as well on the way back. In the end I'll take this over the in car Navigation... even with Apple Maps as the option.