I’m experiencing a strange problem with my 2017 Accord. It started about a year ago and relates to the navigation system. When I first start the car, The navigation system doesn’t seem to know where it is and it places the vehicle marker at some random position on the map. Over the next minute or …

Nice video, thanks for posting…

If I really get in trouble and don’t know where I am, I hit the go home button on the nav system. Then it guides me out. A five minute wait wouldn’t be the end of the world. Coulda used it in Chicago but that was before nav systems and cell phones. In the good ole days as some like to reflect on…

I was in a gas station/mini mart some time before the GPS revolution and in comes these younger guys asking the clerk for directions to the local lake. They seemed normal and not impaired. He says, “take a right going out of the parking lot and go straight. You run into the lake a couple miles down”…

[image] bing: I stopped at the same gas station twice for directions home as I drove in a 30 mile circle. Back in my gas jockey days at a service area on the Southbound NJ Turnpike near exit 16, a guy drove into the station via the “police only” turnaround road from the northbound lanes, and…

I don’t know if it is little known or well known but the exit numbers usually correspond to the mile markers. So exit ten would be at mile marker ten. Also start with one at the state border one way and 300 or whatever the other direction. Hard to get confused although it did happen to me once in…

It depends, sequential numbers were used years ago in many areas, recently in the Northeast.

Yes, it happens at other locations. Wherever I am when I start the car, It takes about 5 minutes to figure out where I am. And pressing the Home button won’t help because if it doesn’t know where it is, then it also doesn’t know how to get home from where it is. Alan

Please let us know what the problem turns out to be. Thanks.

No. Even when the location is wrong, the clock is still right. Alan

I think you may have multiple issues with the system. [image] alan1129: The navigation system doesn’t seem to know where it is and it places the vehicle marker at some random position on the map. From an absolute cold start, the GPS system has to download information from numerous satellites…

Strange problem with Garmin GPS (navigation system)

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jtsanders August 27, 2024, 12:22pm 52

Same for DC. It’s a confusing road system even if you know where you are going. I used to remember a few main roads and drive in the right general direction until I got to one of them and then continued to my destination. GPS came in handy when I worked in SW DC and decided to get off the highway because of snarled traffic. I ended up using one of them as a go-to detour when traffic was a mess around the DC295 and I-495 intersection.

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