Advanced Lane Guidance Improvement ?

turbo10

Hi
When I first started using "Advanced Lane Guidance" I found it very good, the only criticism I had was the lane picture came on the screen only about 200 / 300 yards before the junction which when doing 60 / 70 mps only gave you a matter of seconds to visually check the picture and get into or make sure you were in the correct lane. The very same junctions today came on the screen 1/2 a mile before the junctions, giving me now loads of time to respond to any lane changes should they be needed, a vast improvement.
Have TT somehow done a mod on the notification distance or have I got something set different in the menu's ?? Has anybody else noticed this?

Turbo10

DennisN · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

Is it possible you didn't notice the picture until you were at the 200/300 distance?? I often discovered the picture there when I just noticed it as I was turning off or going by, and kicked myself for not keeping an eye on it earlier. Embarassed

Another thing is that 800 yards from the junction seems to be where this kicks in, but that TT maps seem to have a different idea of 800 yards from the junction at times - some junctions perhaps measure from the lane split, others from the start of the filter lane?

We've all noticed them coming up at 1/2 mile (800 yards). Some of us find that not good enough (and if you're doing 70mps - miles or metres per second? - you might find them a bit short notice too!! Laughing

) and we've turned the feature off, leaving us just using the Advance Lane Guidance feature which gives multiple lane arrows at bottom left of the Status Bar. We find that much more useful and the pictures just eye candy, which we think actually gets in the way of navigating.
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mikealder · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

At least there is an option to turn off the pictures which just leaves the lane assist arrows on the display - Mike

JaguarV12e · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

The biggest improvement, in my opinion, would be to permananently remove the pictures, as they really annoy me. Even though I keep them turned off, they turn themselves on about once a week.
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DennisN · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

turbo10 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

I think the still pictures are really good, not on every junction granted, but on some junctions it is a real help. I was on a strange junction today in Yorkshire were the motorway split and swept off to the left and then again in a matter of 300 yards or so, the motorway was very busy and it was possibly only Advanced lane that kept me in the correct lane avoiding me any last second lane changes.
My TT has changed the distances, I know this because the very first junction I used it on weeks ago the day after I loaded v8 maps only warned me no more that 300 yards away from the junction and I remember thinking that it was a little late, but today that same junction warned me 0.5 of a mile before.
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DennisN · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject:

If you're happy with the still pictures, then that's great and goes to show it's a good move for TT to allow us to make our own customisations.

The only explanation I can think of for the lesser 300 yard warning is if you were driving more slowly than the TT expects for that junction - when I'm crawling along, I get 100/200/300yd warnings, but at speed, they turn up to 800yds. Just a thought - guessing around in the dark, really, don't pay me any attention!!
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alanji · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject:

Kar98 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

It's happened to me three times today at least - switched itself on again, reboots, wretched lane images come back again.

I'm trying my best to be a really nice person, all sweetness and light. But I suppose I must have been really wicked in my previous life and now I'm getting all this hassle to punish me. Crying or Very sad

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DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject:

Kar98 · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

Aha! I knew I forgot something: hard reboots also make it forget the POI warnings it's supposed to issue. At least on mine. How about yours?

And there's really nothing that would stand out as a cause. It doesn't reboot spontaneously, but sometimes just turning it back on will actually be a hard boot, as opposed to the normal soft resume, if you know what I'm talking about ;)

DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject:

Yes, I lose the POI warnings, sometimes from a simple switch on, but mostly from spontaneous self-switch-on. It also happens to me every time I connect it to the PC (even though that doesn't fire up TT Home and I'm just using Win Explorer).
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