Xm traffic

[GeneYus]

I must be doing something wrong. After I plug in my destination, I check the traffic feature, and anything the screen shows is 20-40 miles away or more from where I am or where I'm going. Of course then I pass construction or an accident, neither notated on my screen. I've only had my car a couple of weeks, and if I'm not mistaken, this feature is useless. They actually charge for this after 3 months on the 2010 ? Wow.

 

[dataguy]

XM NavTraffic uses NAVTEQ Traffic as the service provider. It's fairly typical to have the data to be time delayed or missing, since there appears to be a significant delay between the telemetry appearing on the display. So it's common to be stuck in traffic before the route turns red, an incident shows up, or a traffic congestion warning is announced.

I won't be renewing it when my trial is up. But I hear others have gotten really good retention deals when they threaten to cancel, including free or discounted NavTraffic.

 

[ctrcbob]

The traffic feature is not always accurate, or even up to date. Also, there are times when there is no traffic icon, so no traffic feature. Example: I am presently on the road, and today, I had no traffic feature for a few hours and a couple hundred miles, on I-10 in Florida. It did come back.