| agalbraith |
The nav displays traffic incidents and colour coding on how traffic is flowing.
That's cool and all, but does it actually change the route it recommends based on any of this information?
...or am I supposed to read the screen, and manually detour around stuff?
Forgive me if I missed something obvious.... the handbook is, at best, vague.
Thanks,
-alistair |
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| NewVMan |
| Acura Nav does not use trafic information in routing calculations, it just displays information. |
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| shiretsu |
| Just curious...The GWB was closed due to a jumper. How was this protrayed on the NAVs in the NYC area? |
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| phins2rt |
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Originally posted by shiretsu
Just curious...The GWB was closed due to a jumper. How was this protrayed on the NAVs in the NYC area?
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| shiretsu |
| Love it !!! PA cops "talked" another one down...huh? |
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| sharkfans |
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Originally posted by agalbraith
but does it actually change the route it recommends based on any of this information?
I believe you can request the nav system to reroute to surface streets if, for example, the nav is showing red on the freeway you're traveling.
Although I've never done this before, I remember reading in the manual about setting the nav system to 1) use freeway as much as possible on your route, 2) stay off freeways as much as possible on your route, and 3) block out areas you don't want to travel through (i.e. a bad parts of town).
Check the manual, I think you'll find some good info on the nav. Hope this helps. |
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| tazdevl |
The nav does not automatically offer detour options if traffic is detected on your route... you see it on the display, hit the controller once, select detour.
It would be nice if the folks at Acura got their head on straight and actually integrated XM into the nav to make it more intelligent so it voluntarily offered detour options and voluntarily notified you of traffic a few miles out if you were on a planned route or even if you were not on a planned route but had been traveling on x freeway for x miles.
Other manufacturers have managed to do it, not sure why Acura can't. |
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| agalbraith |
Yeah, I have to admit that I somewhat expected this car to be more technologically advanced than it is.
The Nav knows about a whole load of stuff, but doesn't react on it.
The phone system is smart enough to slow down the fan when it's in use, but too dumb to pick up caller ID names from the phone book to display in the caller ID (my 2003 BMW did this)
It's got to be just an update from Acura that's needed - so I'm kinda suprised that they're so behind.... |
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