Consequently, if you are using navigation on your robot and not using ROS Navigation, I'd be curious to hear why.
For our (now retired) driverless car, there were two reasons not to use ROS navigation:
* Navigation using the DARPA-defined Road Network Definition File (RNDF) had already been implemented for the Urban Challenge competition, before porting to ROS.
* The standard cmd_vel (geometry_msgs/Twist) interface that works so well for most robots is unnatural for vehicles using Ackermann steering. They prefer something like this: