Please post impressions on the XM NAVTRAFFIC
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A few untimely responses, and a few questions.
First, if you don't subscribe to traffic, you do not see "traffic" in the corner. It's not exactly greyed out, it's just not there. I subscribed to XM and Traffic, and it literally took them 2 weeks to activate it. I ended up getting the entire year for free because there was some glitch that they werent able to activate it until they escalated to another department.
Onto my question. I live in Minneapolis, so I have full traffic signals. The couple things I've noticed I am questioning.
-The word Traffic in green - does this ever change? I kind of expected if I was in traffic, it would change to match.
- Rerouting - do I need to manually reroute? Kind of odd that it wouldn't do this on it's own.
- Will the navi reroute me to a non-traffic monitored road? It always seems to tell me there are no alternate routes even though I'm 30 miles from my destination
- There are only a few roads monitored (35, 94, 169) in my area. Are the traffic updates something that are handled by XM, MNdot, or if I update my maps from the 07-08, will they "enhance" the data layer of the maps for more functionality?
Thanks all - just some things I've been thinking about.
First, if you don't subscribe to traffic, you do not see "traffic" in the corner. It's not exactly greyed out, it's just not there. I subscribed to XM and Traffic, and it literally took them 2 weeks to activate it. I ended up getting the entire year for free because there was some glitch that they werent able to activate it until they escalated to another department.
Onto my question. I live in Minneapolis, so I have full traffic signals. The couple things I've noticed I am questioning.
-The word Traffic in green - does this ever change? I kind of expected if I was in traffic, it would change to match.
- Rerouting - do I need to manually reroute? Kind of odd that it wouldn't do this on it's own.
- Will the navi reroute me to a non-traffic monitored road? It always seems to tell me there are no alternate routes even though I'm 30 miles from my destination
- There are only a few roads monitored (35, 94, 169) in my area. Are the traffic updates something that are handled by XM, MNdot, or if I update my maps from the 07-08, will they "enhance" the data layer of the maps for more functionality?
Thanks all - just some things I've been thinking about.
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Onto my question. I live in Minneapolis, so I have full traffic signals. The couple things I've noticed I am questioning.
-The word Traffic in green - does this ever change? I kind of expected if I was in traffic, it would change to match.
- Rerouting - do I need to manually reroute? Kind of odd that it wouldn't do this on it's own.
- Will the navi reroute me to a non-traffic monitored road? It always seems to tell me there are no alternate routes even though I'm 30 miles from my destination
- There are only a few roads monitored (35, 94, 169) in my area. Are the traffic updates something that are handled by XM, MNdot, or if I update my maps from the 07-08, will they "enhance" the data layer of the maps for more functionality?
-The word Traffic in green - does this ever change? I kind of expected if I was in traffic, it would change to match.
- Rerouting - do I need to manually reroute? Kind of odd that it wouldn't do this on it's own.
- Will the navi reroute me to a non-traffic monitored road? It always seems to tell me there are no alternate routes even though I'm 30 miles from my destination
- There are only a few roads monitored (35, 94, 169) in my area. Are the traffic updates something that are handled by XM, MNdot, or if I update my maps from the 07-08, will they "enhance" the data layer of the maps for more functionality?
-The word "traffic" in green means that your car is currently recieving the Traffic signal from XM, not your current traffic situation.
-I don't use the re-route feature since I know the roads pretty well. I'm going to try it next time though.
-The map upgrades will not enhance the data layer of maps for additional traffic updates. I upgraded and saw no traffic difference in the NYC area.
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