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Navigation and Real Time Traffic Experience
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| 10-17-2006, 06:52 PM | #1 |
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Navigation and Real Time Traffic Experience
The Houston area experienced severe flooding over the last few days. My trip home .. South of Houston .. is normally about 40 minutes. Yesterday it was 2 hours and I was glad to get home. I turned on Navigation as I left work and watched the Real Time Traffic light up with closed roads, flooded streets and slow traffic. I crawled South with everyone else. In Friendswood everyone was turning around due to high water. I tried East, and West and finally used a main street to go further West. Each time the Navigation system kept routing me toward home. I would not have another car without it.
I was not about to run my new 335 coupe in water  Tom |
| 10-19-2006, 09:05 PM | #2 |
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Thats one feature i wish I had had.... I have nav but real time traffic is great.
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| 10-19-2006, 10:22 PM | #3 |
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Great to hear that the 335i's nav works well in houston. I cant wait to use it! Where did you buy yours/when did ya order it? We are trying to get a 335i meet together... should be cool.
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| 10-20-2006, 01:49 PM | #4 | |
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If only a simply software upgrade could give us this function. Yeah, I know, dream on!
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| 10-20-2006, 02:08 PM | #5 |
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Cool. My next BMW will have it, my current ones don't. I did just buy a Garmin Nuvi 660 though, and it also has RTTI but I haven't tried it out yet.
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| 10-20-2006, 07:21 PM | #6 |
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PresaMat,
I bought my 335 coupe from Advantage in League City. Ordered July 8th, built Sept. 9th, picked up October 7th. There appears to be a retro fit for the newer 330's to add real time traffic using the new NAV disk. Tom |
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| 10-21-2006, 12:56 AM | #7 |
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I contacted Navteq today and no one can confirm if the 2007 version had this feature on the new software.
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| 10-21-2006, 12:28 PM | #8 |
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Does anyone have any experience with the real time traffic function in the Seattle area? I always get the "Currently no reception" message. Same for my friend with his 2007 5-series. Is this working already?
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