Hudway Go: Navigation with HUD Reviews

by Driver192837465

Got HudwayGo to use with VIZR HUD. Very disappointed, if there is a way to adjust the settings in HudwayGo it is not intuitive at all. Can’t switch between MPH and KPH. Tried entering my work address as a saved address and it took the wrong address but then there was no obvious way of editing the address to fix it. App doesn’t include traffic for free like any of the other fantastic navigation apps like Google Maps or Waze. Needless to say I deleted HudwayGo and I am returning the HUD because you can’t use it without HudwayGo . Very disappointing.

by Rzbetts

I really wanted to like HudwayGo.
I liked the pictures of the map display and I could use it through CarPlay. It looked just the same in CarPlay which was great.

The main problem and the big problem is that it’s basic function as a GPS map , direction device is useless.
The routes it takes, I cannot work out the logics to them.
The ETA time is wildly inaccurate, when compared with Apple maps or google maps, the eta for Hudway was 30 min longer on an hour highway journey. Even when I was 5 min from home the eta still said I was 10 min away.
The screen refresh is jerky but just about livable.
The positioning of your car on the road is not good either, quite often the map will jump me to traveling in the feeder road when I was still on the main highway.

Graphics great.
All other functions woefully bad.

HudwayGo will not be staying on my phone

by Mo Umar

Some of the reviews have already mentioned this but this navigation app is missing a few very important features such as, no street names. I think it would be helpful in a navigation app I am using to tell me to turn on a certain street by name rather than just "make a right in 200 feet." I also find it annoying when you miss the route provided by the navigation and it takes a cool 30 seconds or so to update and get back on route. I really wanted to like HudwayGo but it still needs to be greatly improved in comparison to google maps, Waze, or even apple maps. I'll keep HudwayGo for now and hopefully try it again in the future when it has been updated.

by Scomet

Hudway app is preprinted on VIZR product material. One doesn’t work without the other. VIZR is a scam, and HudwayGo doesn’t work properly. The relationship with these companies is apparent.

Very poor application. He development team was too eager to release the product before working out the bugs. The navigation app is poor. I live in Atlanta and it can’t map accurately in a timely manner.

Have contacted VIZR support and getting nothing but push back. I want to return these products because looking at waze in reverse isn’t a solution! I know my speed so that is of zero value. YOUR Mapping app is slow, inaccurate or unresponsive. Your business partner VIZR is unprofessional and should also be avoided

by Shananigan7399

I got HudwayGo at Christmas time to go with a device I received as a gift. HudwayGo was recommended. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as I’d expected it to as everything ended up 90 degrees off at the time and a lot of the directions were off by blocks at times. . I decided to wait a while and see if it got any better but its still difficult to use and just an unfortunate waste of money for me.
I’d written before hoping to get a refund by requesting when canceling the subscription a week after I got it but never heard from anyone.

Also a very sketchy way to make sure a person has as much difficulty as possible in order to ask for a refund for an app they’ve deleted- made the name that shows up on the billing Subscriptions page say: “Premium Subscriptions” rather that the name of HudwayGo to ensure they can’t find the name of HudwayGo and give up!!

by CW2SAD

Paid for the lifetime premium use to see the mpg and other available information. Within two minutes I was able to see this was a waste of time, money and iPhone memory. HudwayGo told me my destination was 252 miles away. I went to the map to pick my route and it said-with my vehicle getting 18 mpg-I was going to travel over 300 miles and spend over $200 in fuel. If, without leaving HudwayGo , over 50 miles can be added and my mpg can plummet, this choice was my biggest mistake of the week. I apologize to my spouse for my foolishness.

by Mister_Smiley

This could definitely turn out to be a great app, but unfortunately at the moment, there are quite a few minor issues. If you’re not picky they shouldn’t be a problem.

First, the good stuff:
Directions are accurate
Reroutes quickly
HUD mode works well at night (not during the day, but they said it wouldn’t so that’s not a bad thing)
Street names are accurate (wrong street names annoy me because I need them to know where I am going, so I was excited to see they are correct

Issues I found:
It does not calculate the cost of gas used correctly. I set it to $3 a gallon and it jumped to $78 a gallon by itself. After two days it recorded I had spent $128 in gas when I had driven a total of 40 minutes.

Speed limit is incorrect in various places.

by Nursebecky2006

I bought the hardware to have hands free navigation but HudwayGo is useless. It takes you off the freeway just to get back on immediately, states “turn right in 500 feet” not saying it’s an exit from the freeway or what the name of the exit is. When you arrive at your destination it states “your destination is directly ahead” no mention of what side of the street or the address or that it’s three houses away still. I’m so disappointed in this

by RiVal-G

I intended to use HudwayGo using with a recently purchased VIZR-HUD device but, I find it is not as precise and user friendly as Google map is.

I selected a destination: Google Maps says destination is 36 miles from starting point and HudwayGo says it is 52 miles away, even though I selected the same route.

I also find HudwayGo - perhaps because I have not upgraded it to a paid subscription, (why should I, Google Maps is much better and free)-, it is a bit convoluted for a new user selecting the route option I want to use.

It is a shame VIZR -HUD can’t be used with Google maps and, though I was looking forward to driving with a HUD, I will be returning that device.

I will keep an eye on HudwayGo. I hope the developer resolves the accuracy and user experience in the future.

by SJS2k

This isn’t the most user friendly app in the world but it could get by if it was tied to a decent GPS. But the GPS tied to HudwayGo is awful. I’ve only had one experience with it but that’s clearly enough. I bought 5 VIZR Heads Up Displays for myself and Christmas gifts. They recommend HudwayGo to be used with it. Apparently WAZE and Google Maps won’t work on HUD’s, which is regrettable. I live in a well established neighborhood in a good sized city.
I programmed in my Home Address and asked it to navigate me to a local post office 4 miles away, on almost a straight shot on a large arterial roadway. It did, and I was pleased. Then I told it to navigate me to my Home. The GPS on this very simple drive couldn’t do it. It directed me to make several wrong turns before even getting near to my destination. When I got home, the GPS didn’t recognize where I was, even though I started from there 20 minutes beforehand.
It’s too bad. The HUD hardware worked pretty well, but what good is a great display when the recommended app is misdirecting you? I’m going to have to send back the 5 display units until some decent GPS is made available with the reversed and inverted image necessary for this kind of hands-free display.

by DonHo100

Given the number of GPS apps out there, I would have thought this one would just adapt one of those to use with their Huddy, but NO. Their app is really not ready for prime time and the whole system should be taken off line until they have something a lot smoother. I had to pay $3 just to have voice on HudwayGo and ALL the other popular GPS apps have that for free. Guess I need to return the device since I cannot use it without HudwayGo and HudwayGo is not worth it.
Gave two stars only because of the device, HudwayGo deserves 1 Star only.

by Ted In Chicago

The loading time is terrible...it takes forever to load the route, while all other 5 to 6 GPS maps I tried can get this done immediately. My device IOS is 12.4.4. To test it, I create a route that is 2 miles away from my home, then hit the button Let's go!, it goes nowhere but keeps showing some rotating dots for good. I can finish two cups of coffee and it still working hard to load the navigation route!

Once in awhile, it could load the route in 10 to 20 seconds, it is still ten folds of time more than other maps I have tried.

by MarmotRidge

I have not found a way to make Hudway Go work in miles and miles per hour. A settings function seems fairly hidden if it exists.

Not sure what they want me to subscribe to but if that’s their business model I’m out of here. I would pay ten bucks to try to make HudwayGo work for me, but I am not marrying these folks.

Saw one reply and the developer is not supporting the product. You don’t professionally say the other side is bad if your app needs the other side. And if the other side is bad you help them get it right or look for another partner. The customer never goes in the middle.

by JJ Ellington

I installed the Hudway Go premium app with Sound. Upon using it it had many wrong turns and incomplete actions. Example it would say turn right in 200 feet but there was no right turn and the arrow was showing left turn. When using it on a highway in getting off in a city it had me get off incorrect exit and then lost the signal and could not provide new location. I had to switch to Google Maps. Overall it does work most of the time except when you getting into a city situation. What I have been doing is running Hudway Go with no sound and with Waze voice running in the background I would really like my money back on this one, bad choice not reliable.

by John0627

I paid for it thinking HudwayGo was going to be a good one. I was disappointed to find out the HUD did not tell you what street I needed to turn onto next when using the HUD. Why would you not do that? The premise of this being a safety feature is that the user does not have to return to the map view to check the name of the next street to turn on. I'm very disappointed Hudway.

by Llinfeng

It appears to me that the ETA is calculated by the average speed of the trip: before hitting the highway, a 20-minute trip to the Airport should be estimated to be costing a few hours. The ETA shrinks and shrinks as I speed up, after hitting the highway.

Also, I did not find option to avoid tolls, let alone avoiding dirt roads etc. Be warned that this NAVivgation App should only offer the most basic navigation.

HudwayGo needs major upgrade to make it user-friendly.

by JoeD911

I found out about this program not so long ago. After a couple of rides, I realized that I like this map with custom indicators much more than my previous map. It’s safe when the phone turns off, or when you reboot the phone how program recalculates the route and I don’t have to waste my time on writing address again. I can say that speed and traveled distance are shown correctly.

by Ryan87Dan

Really good.

I have been useing HudwayGo for a while and to be honest it is even better than expected. It has lot of features and some useful options which I usually feel that I need. So I am really glad to use it. Still I am rating as a four star because they really have to make some updates and fix some things. After that I will change it to 5 starts. I promise it. Thanks.

by DuckD87

I was looking for a good and functional application for a long time that could help me on the road while I was driving. And after a long search, I found this great application. This application has a beautiful design, clear and functional interface, and a clear menu. I figured out with this application very quickly. It helps me a lot during travellings for long distances.

by Zhdjdksnsnx

My father is a driver. He told me about HudwayGo and recommended to install it for safety driving. And he was right use it very often. It gives me every details about my driving like speed, turns, braking It helps me drive safely. I will share it with my friends .thanks for your great job