XM Traffic?

[shagnat]

I'm paying for the XM Traffic option along with having most of the XM channels available.

How do you "engage" the XM traffic? Is it automatically there (if I'm paying for it) or are there steps I have to do in order to use the traffic function?

 

[LA Genesis]

It should be automatic. Look at your map. If you see red and green lines it is working properly. The red means heavy traffic, green lines means no traffic.

 

[minus200]

I know nothing of the Genesis nav but on my Tom Tom - when there is a traffic problem - she just announces it and suggest an alternate rout

 

[shagnat]

I know nothing of the Genesis nav but on my Tom Tom - when there is a traffic problem - she just announces it and suggest an alternate rout

My Garmin is much better overall than the DIS Tech package Nav system too, but, that's not the question.

 

[Vermillion3]

Yeah it just magically appears on your nav screen as a red or green or yellow color stripe next to your highway/freeway/interstate you are on. Coverage is kinda crappy so if it shows nothing it is most likely the service and not your rides fault.

 

[jlindh]

Does anyone happen to know what the "barbs" on the red and green traffic indicator lines signify? I believe that the traffic system uses cell phone position inputs for its information, possibly the barbs indicate data inputs.

 

[Fast55]

My Garmin is much better overall than the DIS Tech package Nav system too, but, that's not the question.

The system will announce traffic congestion and give you the option to re-route, but obviously that only happens when navigation is active. It will even allow you to preview the new route around the congestion. Overall, not bad for factory nav.

 

[shagnat]

The system will announce traffic congestion and give you the option to re-route, but obviously that only happens when navigation is active. It will even allow you to preview the new route around the congestion. Overall, not bad for factory nav.

Ok, it only works on Interstate highways?
Also, if it does show congestion and it will make an announcement?
If available it will show an alternate route?

That sounds pretty cool. Is it reliable?

 

[sdunnin]

You can also access XM Traffic Info via Home/System Info/XM Data via the DIS.

 

[Fast55]

Ok, it only works on Interstate highways?
Also, if it does show congestion and it will make an announcement?
If available it will show an alternate route?

That sounds pretty cool. Is it reliable?

Not sure about it working on rural roads, I can't remember a time I was using nav and had a congested road that wasn't a freeway. My guess is it would not work for that situation.

It does actually announce that the road ahead is congested and it gives you the option to re-route and preview the new route on the screen. It's been pretty good. Equal to or better than anything else built in to a car I've used in the past 5 years counting Lexus, Toyota, MB, BMW, GM, and Acura.

I've had 2 documented errors with it. Not the map itself, but the voice instruction it's giving.

Actually driving home the day I bought the car in Glendora, I was checking it out and the voice says to keep right to exit the 134 to the 101. Wrong. Stay to the right and you end up on the 170 north. No big deal because the map on the screen is right and obviously I know my way home, but the voice instruction was definitely wrong.

The other was similar in that the voice said to keep right for the 405N, but that would be the 605N when I was coming back from OC. Again, the map was right, but the voice was wrong.

I called in the first error to Mapnsoft and got what sounded like a kid on the phone. "Yeah, where? OK". I did not get the impression that what I said went any farther, so I never reported the second error.

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