Some Nav Plus Shots - This thing is so cool!
01-03-2004, 06:59 PM
#11
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Ask me again in a week or two, you can zoom out to the whole chicago area
Would be cool if you are traveling across a state....has something like a 50 mile view across it....or as small as 1 mile or so.
pw
pw
01-03-2004, 07:00 PM
#12
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Definitely worth it
For your car it's about a 10 hour project or so after I do my write up....don't think it's a 3 hour project, because it's not.
So I say 10 hour....okay, double it and make it 20 hour and it will be all done forever!
pw
So I say 10 hour....okay, double it and make it 20 hour and it will be all done forever!
pw
01-03-2004, 07:25 PM
#14
Will do. Thanks and Enjoy. I use mine a lot even when I don't need it -- just because I can...
...and to see if it's smarter than me. HAH!
Technology is amazing, isn't it? Almost spooky.
"How does it do that???"
Reminds of an an old joke:
A teacher asks her Grade 3 class what the most amazing invention ever created is. Answers range from the microwave, to rockets, to the airplane, etc. Johnny says "a thermos". When asked why he says, "It keeps the hot stuff hot, and the cold stuff cold. How does it know?"
P.S. your writeups are great fun to read... and again, bring back the shoes!
Technology is amazing, isn't it? Almost spooky.
"How does it do that???"
Reminds of an an old joke:
A teacher asks her Grade 3 class what the most amazing invention ever created is. Answers range from the microwave, to rockets, to the airplane, etc. Johnny says "a thermos". When asked why he says, "It keeps the hot stuff hot, and the cold stuff cold. How does it know?"
P.S. your writeups are great fun to read... and again, bring back the shoes!
01-04-2004, 07:20 AM
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Re: Map Display?
Paul - I have noticed in your shots of the screen in the centre console you tend to have as the default display the "schematic" or arrow-type display, rather than the map. Is there any reason for this?
I tend to use the map display in the centre console and the arrow display between the dials. I find that particularly useful when the arrow display is counting me down to a multi-road junction (eg coming off a motorway, when the exit road splits to north & south routes before the arrow display has updated to tell you that you are off the motorway). The map display gives me a useful "overview" of the route I want to take. I don't know quite how useful this would be in the US, where, particularly in cities, the arrow display is probably quite good enough for a gridiron street layout.
In general, my take on SatNav is that it is a must-have. Not for the times when you know when you're going - a computer is never going to match your best route from home to work, which takes account of traffic flows etc - but for times when you don't: when you're trying to get from a place you've never been before to another place you've never been before in a city you've never been before.
I assume that you've got the female navigator's voice? I love it when you disobey the computer! "Perform a U-turn if possible", repeated over and over. A more imaginative programmer would have had her saying after the third disobeyed instruction: "Honestly! I don't know why I bother! If you're not going to take any notice of me ..." etc...
I tend to use the map display in the centre console and the arrow display between the dials. I find that particularly useful when the arrow display is counting me down to a multi-road junction (eg coming off a motorway, when the exit road splits to north & south routes before the arrow display has updated to tell you that you are off the motorway). The map display gives me a useful "overview" of the route I want to take. I don't know quite how useful this would be in the US, where, particularly in cities, the arrow display is probably quite good enough for a gridiron street layout.
In general, my take on SatNav is that it is a must-have. Not for the times when you know when you're going - a computer is never going to match your best route from home to work, which takes account of traffic flows etc - but for times when you don't: when you're trying to get from a place you've never been before to another place you've never been before in a city you've never been before.
I assume that you've got the female navigator's voice? I love it when you disobey the computer! "Perform a U-turn if possible", repeated over and over. A more imaginative programmer would have had her saying after the third disobeyed instruction: "Honestly! I don't know why I bother! If you're not going to take any notice of me ..." etc...