Turn-by-turn navigation

nounStandard termAutomotive

A routing system that provides sequential audio and visual directions to a driver.

A GPS-based software feature integrated into a vehicle head unit or smartphone that calculates a route and prompts the driver at each intersection. It relies on satellite positioning and mapping data to give advance warning for lane changes, exits, and turns.

Heard on the job

The customer says the turn-by-turn navigation keeps freezing when the car loses cellular signal.