Questionable GPS

A few months ago we had a nice story arc from Questionable Content by J. Jacques that featured spectacular views of Earth from space.  Today we have an installment of Questionable Content that involves a GPS joke.  The pink-haired girl in the middle there is an android so her GPS isn't something she's checking on her smart phone... she is effectively a smart phone... or more correctly an artificially intelligent sentient independently mobile .... entity... I don't think any part of her could be used as a phone.... and before her recent chassis upgrade she was about a foot tall.

So I'm not understanding why the car isn't autonomous. Maybe it's vintage.  Some of this crew seems to like "vintage"... although that usually means steampunk.