For fuck sake, get rid of them kanjis, nobody can read them at speed, and the romaji is too small to be read-able too... It's a catch 22 of lose...

Japanese Licence Plate Numbers are impossible to read at any speed. Ridiculous!

that or just put it in fuckin katakana...

people will bitch cause they cant read kanji or romaji... so might as well just katakana it up.

Who the fuck reads highway signs anyway? GPS navigation FTW...

They have to justify somehow toll fees, right?

FG Lurker wrote:Who the fuck reads highway signs anyway? GPS navigation FTW...

Dude, at the multilevel highway exchangers my GPS always start shitting bricks... Best part is that when he get lost he always default to the garden of the imperial palace in Tokyo...

Coligny wrote:Dude, at the multilevel highway exchangers my GPS always start shitting bricks...

Panasonic?

around here we can still find ippandou road signs, possibly older than me, that have escaped romanization. guess they figure a gaijin that far out had best be able to read or is hopelessly lost anyway.

FG Lurker wrote:Panasonic?

Whoaaa... have you seen the price of these ?, I'm using a playstation portable with GPS antenna and Maplus3 software. And you'd be surprised by the huge number of cheapskates around here using the same miserable solution.

james wrote:around here we can still find ippandou road signs, possibly older than me, that have escaped romanization. guess they figure a gaijin that far out had best be able to read or is hopelessly lost anyway.

We're talking aboot driveable roads, not donkey trails...

Coligny wrote:Whoaaa... have you seen the price of these ?, I'm using a playstation portable with GPS antenna and Maplus3 software. And you'd be surprised by the huge number of cheapskates around here using the same miserable solution.

I can't say I'm too surprised by the results when anything too confusing happens on the road.

I have a Panasonic HDD navi in the car. It works well enough but does get confused at times. It also has a bad habit of delaying instructions sometimes which pisses me off to no end. The worst thing though is that it has a UI "designed" (and I use that in the loosest possible sense of the word) by Panasonic. Those fuckers couldn't design a good UI to save their lives.

Next time around it will be Pioneer for sure. Far and away the best navis on the market.

I have no experience with after-market navi devices. I bought my Honda with the manufacturer's navi package, and it's been incredibly useful (cool HDD audio system too). I'm even quite impressed with the UI.

So, question to those in the know, how do after-market navis compare?

FG Lurker wrote:I have a Panasonic HDD navi in the car. It works well enough but does get confused at times. It also has a bad habit of delaying instructions sometimes which pisses me off to no end. The worst thing though is that it has a UI "designed" (and I use that in the loosest possible sense of the word) by Panasonic. Those fuckers couldn't design a good UI to save their lives.

UI design require some understanding of human psychology...

Japanese companies only have barely litterate code monkeys...

It's not like there was no documentation available on the subject, between Xerox and and Apple Human interface guidelines you really have enough to keep your winter evenings busy...