Renault integrates Waze into its cars

Car navigation systems have gone from being a luxury option to a simple necessity. At least a lot. If you have the option to mirror your phone via Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, you actually have a whole host of apps to choose from. Either the simpler map apps that are built into the phone to significantly more useful ones. On this point Waze sails as a good alternative and it has to be said that some of the editorial staff at Teknikens Värld meticulously follow this information when rush hour traffic around Stockholm has to be navigated and avoided.

Renault will now be the first to use Waze standard on a 12-inch screen in some of its cars, so to speak. The first models will be Renault Megane E-Tech Electric And the New Austral It is equipped with the so-called OpenR screen.

While we’re still in the navigation business, we can fill in the story with more… history. At the beginning of the 2000s, standard installed systems, which were usually very expensive, were performing very poorly. The systems themselves were fine, but there was still some form of interference with the GPS technology that made the accuracy very poor. Or put it this way – if you tried to navigate within the city center, the risk of missing the right exit was incredibly high. The margin of error was so great that it was sometimes difficult to know whether to turn at 1st or 2nd Street. So development has progressed, and there is even a lot of progress.