Test LAPAN Nav on 8 Real Situations

Try It

1. Scan the Tamil code. The route to Batu Caves opens in Tamil for this visit only; your own language setting stays as it was.
2. Tap Go and listen to the opening line and the first turn.
3. End the drive, then try the 中文 and BM codes. To keep a language, change it in Settings, then Language & units.

What to Look For

• The instruction comes first, word for word. The warm lines come only at the start, on long straights and when you arrive, never at a tricky junction.
• Road names said the Malaysian way: “Jalan”, not “Jln”, and exit numbers digit by digit.
• 中文 says 你, and the Tamil sounds like Malaysian Tamil, not a textbook.

Can't drive today? The voice samples are on the press kit.

Try It

1. Scan the code. The route to Mid Valley Megamall opens.
2. In the route preview, tap Motorcycle. The route is planned again straight away.
3. Compare it with the car route, and look at the toll line.

What to Look For

• No way through roads closed to motorcycles, such as the SMART Tunnel.
• Motorcycle toll rates, or “No toll for motorcycles”. At a plaza where bikes ride free, the voice tells you to keep to the motorcycle lane.
• The position icon turns into a motorbike.

Still missing: motorcycle routes don't use live traffic yet.

Try It

1. Phone A, on the road: tap Report, then Flood or Police. One tap is enough. Or hold the talk button and say it, for example “polis kat depan, lane kiri”.
2. Phone B: drive the same road behind phone A, with a route or without one.
3. Watch and listen to phone B as it comes up to the spot.

What to Look For

• Phone B is warned before the spot, on screen and by voice, with the distance.
• Once phone B has stopped, it is asked whether the report is still there.
• Phone B sees the report, never who sent it.

Reports go out to every LAPAN Nav driver, so please report only what is really on the road.

Try It

1. Scan the code. The route to KLIA Terminal 1 opens, with the toll for each route.
2. Tap the toll amount to see every plaza and its fare.
3. Tap Motorcycle for the motorcycle rates, or Avoid tolls for a route without them.

What to Look For

• The total beside each route, in RM.
• “≈” or “At least” when a plaza has no official rate in our table: we never guess a fare.
• After the drive, check it against your Touch 'n Go history.

Try It

1. Scan the code. The route to Bentong opens, usually over the Karak Highway and through the Genting Sempah tunnel.
2. Tap Go while you still have signal. The voice for at least the next 10 km is already on the phone.
3. Drive through the tunnel. Or, as a passenger, switch on Airplane mode for a minute (on most phones the GPS still works).
4. While there's no signal, make a report.

What to Look For

• The route stays and the voice keeps talking from what's on the phone; if a clip is missing, the phone's own voice says it.
• Inside a tunnel the GPS is gone too, so the car doesn't run far ahead on a guess. Straight after, the guidance picks up where you really are.
• The report says “Saved on your phone” and goes out when the signal is back.

Still missing: there is no offline map download yet, so a drive can't be planned with no signal at all.

Try It

1. Scan the code and drive to Sunway Pyramid.
2. Park and walk away. The Your car card shows the spot: tap the level (B3 to L5), or take a photo of the pillar.
3. Later, on the home screen, tap Walk back to your car.

What to Look For

• The spot is where the car stopped, not the mall's pin.
• Walking directions back to the car, with your photo on the way.
• The photo stays on your phone. It is never uploaded.

Try It

1. Scan the code. The route to Seremban opens; pick the route via PLUS.
2. Drive south on PLUS past Nilai. There is an AWAS camera at Mantin.
3. Listen as you come up to it.

What to Look For

• One warning per camera, with its distance and, where it's known, the limit: “Speed camera in 500 metres. The limit is 110.”
• The speed limit on screen, with a chime if you go over it.
• A camera that isn't in the app yet: report it with Report, then Speed camera.

Still missing: JPJ's list has no coordinates, so 9 of its 29 sites aren't in the app yet, and average-speed zones are only the ones drivers report.

Try It

1. Scan the code. It searches for “yut kee”, the kopitiam on Jalan Kamunting in KL.
2. Then type “pelita ampang” for Nasi Kandar Pelita at Ampang Point.
3. Try a place near you, the way you'd say it to a friend.

What to Look For

• The right place first, with its area, so two outlets of the same name are easy to tell apart.
• A place that's missing or wrong can be fixed from the app; drivers' fixes go back into the index.
• Still missing: some places and house numbers, and Chinese names: 益记 doesn't find Yut Kee yet.