BMW Olympic car fleet struggles with satnav routing glitches

Darren

BMW has supplied a fleet of 4,000 vehicles for use in transporting athletes and officials to sporting venues during the event.

Each vehicle has been fitted with custom satnav software, the Dynamic Olympic Route System, which is supposed to guide drivers along the Olympic Route Network, the specially designated Olympic only lanes in London.

At least that is the intention. The trouble is the software has been beset by glitches and crashes which see the system default to the standard routing which has no knowledge of these special lanes.

BMW is working to resolve the issues but in the meantime, drivers are seeing their journey times in some cases double. Perhaps it might have made more sense to use drivers with local knowledge?

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Guivre46 · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject:

The Germans were poking fun at our rubbish olympic arrangements [and the weather] the other day. We should give them the same now.
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Kremmen · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject:

If past performance is anything to go by, by the time they fix it the Olympics will be over Laughing

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lenfish · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2009 Posts: 49

I suppose testing it beforehand would be too obvious?

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DarrenR21373 · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject:

They should have been using Jaguars anyway - why give the contract to BMW, a foreign competitor? What a joke this country is...
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JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:24 am Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:25 am Post subject:

But where are they made?

DennisN · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:08 am Post subject:

Why didn't they get TomTom to do the navigation system?
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Two of them are obesiting!!

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:12 am Post subject:

You know why Very Happy

shires999 · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 09, 2006 Posts: 96

JimmyTheHand · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 386

It's a wonder they can keep them long enough to find a fault in sat navs - Key fob reprogrammers steal BMW in 3 mins
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Hamie · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2003 Posts: 177

Bmw satnav has always been crap. And probably always will. Theybreally dont understand whats involved when it comes to navigation and status displays...

TieJustice · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 24, 2005 Posts: 66

So the drivers are not from GB THEN?
I don't see what all the fuss is about if they had hired drivers from Londan there would be no problem as they would not need a satnav?

That's the problem with this island to many people hiring the cheapest laber that most probely have no clue of how to get around.

Here is wales where I am all I'm looking forwoord to is having some proper news no more Olympic rubbish they got 22 Chanel's just for them and there taking other free channels at lest RT has some news.

it's making my business hell

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