Comments on: Mercedes introduces Search and Send

By: RicardoHead

RicardoHead — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:42:14 +0000

Driven I’d say if your sales people have to have enter every single address into a nav system then you have a bunch of retards working for you. Besides, it probably still takes 2 minutes to go thru the rigmarole of getting this crap uploaded this way, so the 8 minute time savings will only be used for them to pull over in an empty park and choke the chicke.

And if your salespeople are too stupid to plot out a map the nite before with their customer visits then they blithering idiots are winging it far too much, and you are a poor coach.

By: Driven

Driven — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:24:26 +0000

I like the idea of having a meeting and beaming the location to the car before I leave. Its faster than writing down an address and entering into the nav.

If this works well I may encourage my field sales reps to buy BMW and MBs. This way I can email the details of a new meeting to a blackberry and beam the location to their car when they are in the field. Anything to make them more efficient and make me more money.

I can see it now. If they spend 3 minutes entering addresses into the nav and they see 8 clients a day, I could get an additional day worth of work out of them each month.

By: Gcoup�Joe

Gcoup�Joe — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:45:24 +0000

Why not just use voice command, or the command search- location option? it’s nice, but obsolete

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:50:45 +0000

This system is actually based on an old military navigation and targeting system. If you press Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-B-A you’ll drop a PGM on the car in front of you.

By: Aston Martin

Aston Martin — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:42:13 +0000

Great! Now you can type in your destination outside your car rather than in it! FANTASTIC! MY LIFE HAS BEEN MADE WORTH LIVING! MORE TECHY NONSENSE TO CLOG IT UP!

By: frankhoffy

frankhoffy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:10:30 +0000

Good idea. Kind of reminds me of the security system I had on my Volvo where I could remote start it from the web .

By: Commodore

Commodore — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:38:01 +0000

Still behind BMW

By: imageWIS

imageWIS — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:18:10 +0000

Huh. I can’t believe it! A practical use of the way-too-complex Command system.

Jon.

By: Driven

Driven — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:16:04 +0000

BMW has this service in Germany with Google Maps for the last year and a half. I wonder if/when BMW will ever bring this to the US and if they will offer it to current nav owners.

By: jamaicandude

jamaicandude — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:07:33 +0000

I’m just waiting for all the rantings about how unnecessary this is……
I think it’s cool.