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      11-17-2011, 12:51 PM   #23
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I ran a couple googles and it sounds like the GPS/NAV system may cover time sync on Hondas/Acuras, and it's programmed in, not synced with the Internet (oh well). And apparently it's been a problem whenever the dates were changed (in other words, the car changed on the wrong date). This obvious flaw may tell us why BMW (and most other manufacturers?) haven't followed it.

3G/4G Internet sync is the ultimate answer, of course, with cars syncing to Internet time servers just like computers. I'm amazed this hasn't happened already, but of course the auto industry always lags behind. Most of the current crop of cars were designed when 3G was called "cellular", and you accessed with a PCMCIA card and a laptop.
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