Annoying overspeed warning

[DRW]

Wish I understood all that, but it sounds great.

Good luck with the hack. :D

[young-goat]

I'm prepared to accept the inaccuracies etc, but how can I get it to give me an AUDIBLE warning when it detects an overspeed ?

[mikealder]

That is not possible at the moment, the new (as yet to be released) version 7 software does have an audio warning for overspeed, so upgrade to the new version when available and you can be shouted at for driving on a motorway at more than 30MPH.
Unless the embeded data in the map changes and improves the accuracy an audio warning of overspeed is not something I would want - Mike

[blackwellgraham]

v7 looks interesting

http://www.yournav.com/content/s/342/First_meet_with_TomTom_NavCore_7.html

[sollythegolly]

This business of being able to block roads, and stuff - then share the information with other users is interesting.
Do I assume that TomTom have considered the possibility of e-vandalism, i.e., the malicious posting of erroneous data?
Could someone, by whatever nefarious means some of these hackers have, block the entire road system?
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[Andy_P]

Answered HERE (and elsewhere too)

[lyghthouse]

I have found a solutionon my tomtom go 300

I updated maps and software last night and ended up with the speed problems (dingy red).

I disabled the speed display and re enabled it and also went to the map selection page and reselected the UK map.

The speed display is back to normal. No more red but it only gives you your speed not the speed of the road you are on

[Andy_P]

Sorry to disappoint you, but it sounds like either you've just re-selected your OLD map(!), or, more likely, you've only been travelling on roads that don't have any speed data since you did your "fix".

The speed limit data is built into the new map, so if you have the display set to show your own speed, then (on v6 software) it WILL show the road's limit, but only if that data is available for that particular road.

If it isn't, the display will look just like it used to... it can't turn red, because it doesn't know when it should!

[young-goat]

[magic1955]

I have recently just bought the western European map and it has this overspeed warning where the characters flash red when you are overspeed by a few miles an hour and in good daylight you cant read them, so just when you enter a lower speed limit and really want to see your speed on the sat nav you cant see the speed at all. Brilliant who thought of that I asked them, no answer was forthcoming!!! In addition there are so many errors on the map the readout of the speed limit is fairly useless. I contacted Tom tom support and asked them how to change the software, colours to something you can see, cant do it they said. Ok lets have my money back them I will use the old map, cant do it they said. There was quite a bit of correspondance and I sent them the link to this forum to prove it was not just me. I phoned them about the problem, that was a waste of a 30 minute phone call and they never phoned back as promised. I think I will sell my Tom Tom on e bay and buy a road angel, you can see the speed on those very easily. Tom Tom dont appear to care but they did send me a customer survey questionare to ask how I rated their support, the link did not work. Road Angel here i come

[DennisN]

[vroomfondel]

Its even worse on European roads if the speed is in kph.
On autoroutes it means both numbers are 3 figures, so smaller and even more difficult to read.
However, less need to exceed the higher speed limit there.
I find the car's speedometer a more useful indication of speed now that I know what its error is in the 70-80 mph range.

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