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[BaywayRic]

RESETTING THE HOME STATE LOCATION​

 

[musher51]

Ric -- do you have any idea what the benefit is to define one's home state? I'll admit to not being very "nav savvy", but the car "knows" where it is at any given time by virtue of GPS positioning, and of course, one can ID "home" right down to the address, so it's not obvious to me why one's home state needs to be loaded in.

At any rate, I tried to follow the instructions in your link, but it seems like all I'm doing is defining the state for whatever destination I'm about to load.

 

[BaywayRic]

It's a timing thing. The system will "eventually" figure out where it is. But if it is set to Kansas, and you put it on a truck to Minnesota, when you crank it up it will be clueless where it is , for awhile. I assume they put out this guide because some folks were getting confused. If you try to type in 376 First Street as a destination, it will search its database for where it is (current state). If your going far, it needs to know the state your aiming at to properly look up destination addresses.