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Hey, thanks for joining me.
I'm Ben Sullins and welcome to Teslanomics,
the show where we decode the economics behind Tesla,
and today, I'm veering off course a little bit
to show you something that I'm pretty excited about
and I think you will be too, and this is the Navdy HUD.
That's a heads-up display for your Model 3,
or any other car for that matter,
and I recently got a chance to take a look at this
and really try to understand, is this something that
Model 3 owners are going to want and is it gonna be useful?
So to recap, the Model 3 will not have a normal dashboard
sitting behind the steering wheel.
Instead, you're gonna have everything on the center console,
including speed, navigation and everything else,
so you will have to constantly be looking back and forth
in order to just monitor your kinda situation,
and that can be dangerous, so Navdy, they came out
with this heads-up display a couple years actually,
just solely for the fact of trying to keep you safe
on the road because everyone's started to use their phones
and all that, so they have some really
innovative solutions here, and I recently got a chance
to check one out, so I wanna share that experience with you
and help you decide if this is right for your current car
and/or in your Model 3 when that comes out,
or whenever you receive yours here,
hopefully starting in 2017.
So from the get go, the Navdy is
a really well-built product.
All the pieces are really clean and well designed.
The packaging looks beautiful.
A lot of the things are accessories
that come in addition with it,
so when I was unboxing it, I was looking for, you know,
what's this really gonna be like in my car,
and it turned out to fit really, really well
without any of the extra pieces needed, but they do ship it
with some additional components that you may want if
you have a very different kind of dashboard, and we'll see
what the dashboard on the Model 3 is gonna be like.
During installation, I, typical male,
just ignored the instructions completely.
Tried to plug it in and figure it all out, and it worked.
Surprisingly, it worked well.
The hardware aspect of it seems to beautifully done.
It sits perfectly on top of my dash,
right above my actual display,
where I do have a digital display in my Model S,
and it all plugged in perfectly and I was really surprised
because I didn't think that the Tesla had an OBD-II port.
The OBD-II sensors are ones that are made
for checking the oxygen levels in your exhaust,
and ever since 1997, it's something that any car
newer than that has to have 'em.
It's a law, or at least here in California, it is,
so I was surprised to find that Tesla had one,
but there it is, and using the little components they have
to hide the wire and plug it all in, I literally took
five minutes without reading any instructions or anything,
plugged it right in and it just worked.
So out of the box, the Navdy worked really well
and I was really pleasantly surprised with the setup of it.
After the initial setup is when I had to start
configuring the thing, so I had to download the app.
With the app installed, I had to sign in
and allow it all of these things, to take photos,
to use the mic, to access my calls and contacts,
all the kinda stuff that you need to do with any device
that's accessing or basically using your phone in that way,
and so I have an Android phone.
I'm assuming it's gonna be very similar on iPhone
where you have to basically allow all the permissions,
but then once you're there, you have the Navdy app
and it tries to walk you through everything,
and I found this to be a little bit clunky.
So part of the setup is to understand how gestures work.
One of Navdy's cool features is that you can use gestures.
You can wave your hand left or right in order
to accept a call or read a message or, you know,
prompt for a few different things,
and then you have this steering wheel component
that you can use kind of as a button,
and that button has a scroll wheel
and a big button in the middle
that is pretty multifunctional.
It serves a lot of different purposes, so during the setup,
they're trying to walk you through all these things
and I couldn't quite figure out the gestures.
You go to the screen and it just shows left and right,
so I just bring that up because I think
that the UI is a bit clunky right now,
but it's certainly something that I'm sure
that they can improve upon, and in fact,
after actually getting it up and running,
I didn't have any of those issues,
so you can almost skip the setup,
or at least I skipped it, except for one part,
and the one part confused me, so I would just recommend
skipping it altogether if you're technical
and these things are kinda second nature to you.
So driving with the Navdy, it first is a little odd.
It sits almost right in your line of sight,
so right where you'd be looking, and that's intentional
because that's where they display everything,
and it's kind of like a hologram that sits
a few feet out in front of your car when you're doing it,
so it works well in terms of what it's doing,
but I think my first couple drives,
I was much more focused on the Navdy
than the cars in front of me, which can be really dangerous,
so at first, it took a little getting used to.
Now, I'm not as focused after having it for a couple days
and being able to shoot and kind of see, just get a sense
of when to focus in on what's there and when not to,
so that was my very first impression of it, was
it was a little distracting, but really cool in what it did.
One of the features about the Navdy that I liked was
that it was better in terms of the navigation
than the Tesla navigation, the built in stuff.
Now, with the Model 3, it's gonna be a different animal
because you won't have that thing right in front of you,
but on the Model S and X, inside of that car dashboard,
the one right behind the steering wheel,
it changes to the turn by turn directions
when you're in navigation mode, so it kind of does
everything that the Navdy does as well,
but the Navdy, I found, is a little bit better
and there's one little caveat, which it tells me
what the road upcoming is, whereas my Tesla doesn't do that.
On the big display, it tells me the next turn,
but when I'm doing turn by turn inside of the dash there,
it just shows me the route.
It doesn't tell me what the road is for me to turn on
until I'm almost right on top of it,
so I really liked how Navdy's navigation works.
I don't know if, as a Model S owner, it's enough to make me
wanna get it because it does seem kind of redundant.
It has almost all the same stuff
that my Model S has in it built in,
but it is something I wanna give them credit for
that they did a really great job with that.
Now, Navdy integrates with different messaging apps,
so as you receive messages,
you can have a couple different things.
They're called glances, where the message will come in
and I use WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and SMS,
and so I set it up in the app, so any one of those
will pop up and give me what they call is a glance,
and the glance pops in and it shows you
either the message or it just reads it out loud,
so they kind of don't want to show the whole message,
'cause then you're reading the text,
so instead, the default is just read it to me out loud,
and I found that to be pretty good.
It works well, or at least in my experience.
Then the question is how do you reply.
Now, this is where the UI could be a little bit clunky.
It took me a little while to figure out
how many times and where I had to click
in order to actually send a reply via voice.
Now, on Android, it uses Google Voice,
so I can control and do everything like I could
by saying okay, Google, to my phone as I can through Navdy.
So it works really well but it did take me
a little while to get set up, so again,
nothing majorly wrong there, but something they can
improve upon is some of the UI elements
to make it just really more seamless
in terms of how to send and receive messages
while you're driving without having
to take your eyes off the road at all.
I really liked when a call came in
and I had navigation going, I could simply wave my hand
to the left and it would answer the call
or wave it to the right to ignore it.
So when you're in a call, you can end it and use
the scroll wheel to kinda deal with those kind of things,
but the display itself still keeps your map
or whatever else you had there,
whether that was the dashboard, which has things
like your speed and all that kind of going,
or you know, music or whatever else you had up,
so the calling feature and how it integrates there
without being totally disruptive,
I thought is a nice touch on the UI front.
So when it comes to using it to operate your phone,
it turned out to be pretty simple once I figured it out.
You hold the button down for two seconds
and it'll automatically go to Google Now for me
or Siri if you're an iPHone user, and from there,
you can use your phone that way,
and Google Now's version of this is tremendous,
so I can do tons of things, like open my podcast app
and play my favorite podcast, or send a message on WhatsApp,
so it's really, really flexible in that regard.
This is something that I feel
my Tesla Model S has been missing,
and I think it would be fairly easy for them
to integrate the two things, but it's something
that Navdy will give you that even if, in your Model 3,
you wanna use the built in one and it does a decent job,
this is gonna be better, I think,
because your phone and Google and Siri are just far superior
to the built in Tesla version of the voice commands.
I often find myself trying to use the Tesla voice commands
and getting frustrated because it doesn't do
nearly as many things as my phone does,
so the fact that I can integrate that
and I just hold a button for two seconds
without having to take my eyes off the road
or my hands off the steering wheel is really valuable.
I think that's a big plus on the Navdy's side.
Even if you are a Model S or X owner
and you don't really need the dashboard side of it,
this is something that I found to be pretty nice.
One thing that was kinda strange is
the Navdy seemed to take over my car system.
In fact, it has this override setting,
so when it wants to tell me something,
it does it through the car's Bluetooth, which is great.
That's how I want it to work, but it had this weird thing
where it wouldn't stop playing music no matter what I did.
(soft electronic music playing)
As a Tesla owner, I have my display of the music
going in there and I can hit pause
and it seemed that the Navdy didn't like me doing that,
so it would just kind of come on
and start playing the music over and over again,
so as long as you're trying to do everything
through the Navdy, I think it works great,
but if you're trying to combine the built in Tesla UI
with the Navdy functionality, they seem to fight, I dunno.
There you have it, my review of the Navdy heads-up display
and my final thoughts are basically this.
If you have a Model S or X, I don't think you're gonna
really want to shell out the 500 bucks for this.
If you are in line for a Model 3 or you have a different car
which doesn't have a really advanced digital display
dashboard that does things like plays the music
that's currently playing or shows navigation
or does any of the really advanced cool stuff
that the Model S and X already do out of the box,
then the Navdy is gonna be
an awesome, awesome addition to your car.
Now, if you have a Model 3, I think
this will fit well with it, depending on
how the dashboard actually lays out and how it fits.
As I mentioned before, there are lots of different levels
and ways that you can use this, but you can get it now.
It's 499 retail, and then you can switch it over
to your other car, literally, like I said,
it took no more than five minutes for me to set it up,
so I'm hoping, I'm thinking that a lot of you
that have Model 3s are gonna want this,
and I would encourage you to, if you can go find one
on display somewhere, check it out, or you can order it
through a link in the description down below,
and let me know what you think.
Let me know if you have one as well.
I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on this,
so thanks for joining me yet again
and I'll see you back here next time.
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