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Does anyone know if the new nav is heat sensitive like the lexus? Was in a tahoe with nav the other day and i had to tap the screen to give commands
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Like jaguar36, I also have a long commute (~55 miles each way) with multiple options as to which freeways to take (57, 605, or even the 110) to get from home in Pasadena to work in Orange County. Currently I have to log onto sigalert.com on my Blackberry repeatedly before coming to my decision points, and it would be very nice to be able to see practically the same info pop up automatically on the navi screen. From the image that Karl Brauer posted, it looks like the CTS' display shows identical data to what I'd find online - can anyone who has used the CTS' navi confirm this?
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Oh, Lost/Last/Las Angeles.
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tlcruz
- Mar 18, 2008 5:14 pm
(#8 Total: 11)
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far far away from my hometown, pa |
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I do not for one second miss any traffic on the 605, 405, 105 or 91!!! Granted, I miss certain things about SoCal and definitely my family&friends but I do not miss traffic. I do hate having only two lanes but I'm slowly over it. lol :)
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jpr18
- Mar 18, 2008 2:40 pm
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my X5 routes me around traffic....
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Relentless traffic is one of two primary reasons I'm leaving SoCal in August, after living here for 27 years. It wasn't always this way, but it's been getting steadily worse for at least 10 years. For what it's worth, absurd home prices are the second reason.
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louiswei
- Mar 18, 2008 12:43 pm
(#5 Total: 11)
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Gee, Carl, you are right on!! Last Thanksgiving I was considering upgrade my current portable unit to one that has the real time traffic function. Then my buddy asked me: What's the point, you live in LA right?
Me: Good point...
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chevy598
- Mar 18, 2008 11:50 am
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"So what's our lesson? Don't move to SoCal?"
ewilfong, You beat me to it. If traffics that bad, I'd start looking for a new place to live. It's not hard to see why Nissan left. Outrageous property values and perpetual gridlock can scare even the best away
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ewilfong
- Mar 18, 2008 11:13 am
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So what's our lesson? Don't move to SoCal?
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Theoretically you should enter your destination into the nav (even if you know where you're going) and let dynamic routing take you the most efficient way around the bad areas. Problem is, if EVERY route is bad it's not going to do you any good. Not to mention that data on surface streets is generally not available to the RTT system, so there could be jams of unknown magnitude that the system routes you into in the hope of avoiding a freeway backup.
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jaguar36
- Mar 18, 2008 9:58 am
(#1 Total: 11)
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It all depends on your commute. On my current commute I have three completely different ways to go, that each take between 30-40 minutes. Except when on of them has an issue (like today when they decided to close a 2-mile stretch of I-95). Right now I have to waste time listening to traffic reports, or checking websites to hopefully hear about incidents like these. A Nav system with Traffic would be a huge help to me, as it could allow me to take a different route depending on traffic. if you've only got one route, well yeah theres not much it can do for you, but if you've got multiple options that are all about the same, knowing the traffic conditions can save you huge amounts of time.
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