I feel that I have made a terrible purchase decision when I bought my 2014 Siena Limited with the additional technology package. The JBL navigation system is the worst in the industry. It takes 10 minutes for you to go through the prompts to set a destination. If you push on the voice command button, it lists all of your options, once it finishes reading all of these options you can then proceed to say navigation. It will then tell you that it is now searching Texas (as an example), but you are now in fact in Louisiana. So at the prompt that is asking for the town name, you must say change state, it confirms that you are now changing the state, you say Louisiana, it confirms that you said Louisiana and wants you to say yes or go back. You say yes, now you need to say the name of the city, Smithville, now it confirms that you said, Smithville, or you may choose one of the two options that it could have heard or once again, it will give you the option to go back. You confirm that Smithville is where you want to go, now you must say the name of the street, Main Street, it confirms that you have said Main Street and once again gives you two other options that it could have heard and gives you the option to go back. You confirm the name of the street. Now it wants the house number and it is kind enough to tell you that you must say the house number in single digits, because you are stupid, here is an example. You must say 1 5 in order to indicate 15. It then confirms in single digits. Again, you say yes and now it asks you to say enter in order to proceed. Congratulations, you have probably arrived at your destination just in time for this GPS system to finally plot the route. You have gone through this aggravation and you are now on the road heading to your destination and it is giving you what it considers to be turn by turn directions. As helpful as it is to see what lanes you need to be in, the screen is split 50-50 where one half is the map and the other half is the list of directions. Contrary to the way the entire world reads directions, i.e., from the top of the page down, JBL believes that the directions are best if your next turn is at the bottom of the list and you must read the directions in order from bottom to top, but only three at a time. So you are driving down Route 1 and you know that you are going to be on this road for the foreseeable future, but you approach an exit for what is considered another major road, we will call that route 2. This major road is approaching in the next half-mile but the GPS system feels it necessary to advise you to stay on the road that you are on. Once again you have your 50-50 screen split with the map on the left and now you have an indicator telling you to stay on the road you are on. It is quite possible that after you have passed this major intersection that the next exit is your turn and you need to be in the right-hand lane because it's coming up in 100 feet. Unfortunately, you cannot see this because you are being told to stay on the road that it didn't tell you to get off of. You are in Smithville and right on the border with Pleasantville, you know that there is a restaurant in Pleasantville that you want to go visit but you can't remember the name or directions and forget about an address. You turn to your trusty JBL navigation system and once you find the option to look for restaurants, you tell it you want restaurants that are near here. Near here only counts if you are in the town, it has no bearing on proximity. You could be looking at your restaurant, but because it is across the Townline, it is not near here. There is a plethora of more irritations and aggravations that go with this system. It is not a safe system because as I said, if you wanted a restaurant that it did not consider being near here, you are undoubtably going to look it up on your cell phone so you can get the address and put it into the GPS. Of course you are a safe driver and would never use the Internet while you are driving. The extra technology with speed sensitive cruise control, and automatic high beams are excellent, but I think I spent $50,000 on a minivan that needs to have a Garmin GPS installed.
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Great video, I was looking for something just like that, You've explained it all there, Thank you!
I'm surprised it shows bigger KM/H readings than MPH
I feel that I have made a terrible purchase decision when I bought my 2014 Siena Limited with the additional technology package. The JBL navigation system is the worst in the industry. It takes 10 minutes for you to go through the prompts to set a destination. If you push on the voice command button, it lists all of your options, once it finishes reading all of these options you can then proceed to say navigation. It will then tell you that it is now searching Texas (as an example), but you are now in fact in Louisiana. So at the prompt that is asking for the town name, you must say change state, it confirms that you are now changing the state, you say Louisiana, it confirms that you said Louisiana and wants you to say yes or go back. You say yes, now you need to say the name of the city, Smithville, now it confirms that you said, Smithville, or you may choose one of the two options that it could have heard or once again, it will give you the option to go back. You confirm that Smithville is where you want to go, now you must say the name of the street, Main Street, it confirms that you have said Main Street and once again gives you two other options that it could have heard and gives you the option to go back. You confirm the name of the street. Now it wants the house number and it is kind enough to tell you that you must say the house number in single digits, because you are stupid, here is an example. You must say 1 5 in order to indicate 15. It then confirms in single digits. Again, you say yes and now it asks you to say enter in order to proceed. Congratulations, you have probably arrived at your destination just in time for this GPS system to finally plot the route.
You have gone through this aggravation and you are now on the road heading to your destination and it is giving you what it considers to be turn by turn directions. As helpful as it is to see what lanes you need to be in, the screen is split 50-50 where one half is the map and the other half is the list of directions. Contrary to the way the entire world reads directions, i.e., from the top of the page down, JBL believes that the directions are best if your next turn is at the bottom of the list and you must read the directions in order from bottom to top, but only three at a time. So you are driving down Route 1 and you know that you are going to be on this road for the foreseeable future, but you approach an exit for what is considered another major road, we will call that route 2. This major road is approaching in the next half-mile but the GPS system feels it necessary to advise you to stay on the road that you are on. Once again you have your 50-50 screen split with the map on the left and now you have an indicator telling you to stay on the road you are on. It is quite possible that after you have passed this major intersection that the next exit is your turn and you need to be in the right-hand lane because it's coming up in 100 feet. Unfortunately, you cannot see this because you are being told to stay on the road that it didn't tell you to get off of.
You are in Smithville and right on the border with Pleasantville, you know that there is a restaurant in Pleasantville that you want to go visit but you can't remember the name or directions and forget about an address. You turn to your trusty JBL navigation system and once you find the option to look for restaurants, you tell it you want restaurants that are near here. Near here only counts if you are in the town, it has no bearing on proximity. You could be looking at your restaurant, but because it is across the Townline, it is not near here.
There is a plethora of more irritations and aggravations that go with this system. It is not a safe system because as I said, if you wanted a restaurant that it did not consider being near here, you are undoubtably going to look it up on your cell phone so you can get the address and put it into the GPS. Of course you are a safe driver and would never use the Internet while you are driving.
The extra technology with speed sensitive cruise control, and automatic high beams are excellent, but I think I spent $50,000 on a minivan that needs to have a Garmin GPS installed.
I like it really nice just a shame the interior's kinda chintzy