Has Kia improved the navigation response?

[Mike_TX]

Speaking as the owner of a 2017 Optima SX-L, I have to say the nav response is pretty much lackluster.

It works well once a destination is set, but getting it there is painful ... you ask it to find an address, for instance, and you can almost hear the digital gears grinding away as it thinks about it for what seems like long minutes before it finally goes on to the next step. Then another wait as it digests that information and moves along to the step after that.

I figure that putting a sloooow processor in a car like the Optima is forgivable to some extent, but it won't look too good in a $50k halo car.

So, did they do it? Or is the nav quicker to do its thing in the Stinger?

 

[Kamauxx]

No the Nav is virtually identical to the Optima's.

 

[Clearly Canadian]

The bottleneck may not be the processor. Question: if you are in a no service area (like the mountains) can you still do a nav lookup?

 

[Berzerker]

Nav information is local. The only thing that requires an internet connection is the Google local services, which you'd need Wifi for anyway.