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Just because I linked back to this discussion from it... thought I'd let you know that you can now blog from your CarSpace page. My blog happens to be titled Alternate Route and here's my latest blog entry dealing with nav systems: Dead Reckoning If you have any questions about the blogs or need help getting yours going (it's really easy!), just pop an email to me or any other host here in the forums and we'll be happy to give you a hand! |
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Replying to: emgr (Jul 01, 2007 6:23 pm)  As one of the other posters said, the difference between Garmin and the Nissan nav system is the Inertial Navigation System, making the Nissan system far superior (even if it can't pronounce names). The INS uses gyros in the car to sense what the car is doing, even if satellites can't be "seen" by the nav system. When you're in a city with tall buildings, or in deep mountain valleys, normal GPS systems can lose their satelite locks, leaving you high and dry when you're looking for say, a Starbucks in downtown San Francisco (yeah, now THAT'S hard to find...). With the INS, the car still knows where it is even if the view of the sky (and the satelites) is blocked and will get you to your latte without a hiccup. |
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Poor recognition. Limited Vocab Don't do the features shown on the help list. POOR POOR POOR 
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Replying to: gripperdon (Sep 07, 2007 7:51 pm) |
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Does anyone know how to override the built in safety on the Nissan Navigation system so I can access all the features on the move. Steve
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Replying to: phantomaa (Sep 26, 2007 2:47 am)
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Replying to: langjie (Sep 26, 2007 6:38 am) And thus void at least part of the warranty. Remember that a hybrid is partially electric; changing anything electrical could be construed as interfering with the propulsion system if anything were to go wrong. "cut a wire and install a switch"... let's see here ... In practice it might only void the warranty on the Navigation system, but who knows what a company will do when presented with a major repair and an obvious modification?
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Replying to: stevedebi (Sep 26, 2007 12:47 pm) the 244V hybrid portion of the car is a complete different system then the standard 12V. yes, a dealership can say you did this, you did that, but if you do it cleanly and use common sense, it shouldn't be a problem. cutting the speed sense wire and bridging it with a switch is not that difficult for anyone who has any electrical experience. if your Navi ever had any issues, remove the switch you installed and patch the wire i know a website with step by step instructions if anyone is interested oh yeah, btw, this is a do at your own risk project
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Can you pass on the site address? Thanks |
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Circling back to the voice guidance for street names, it would be nice, but the Nissan system definitely doesn't do it. HOWEVER, after using the nav system for about 4 month now, it actually might be OK. You can set your nav system up so that it pops up a second window beside the main window as you approach an intersection you need to turn at. Within that window is a progress bar, that gets smaller and smaller as you get close to the intersection, so there's not really any doubt if you're going to turn onto the right street. Up here in rural country north of San Francisco, there are very poorly-lit neighborhoods. At night, if you try to read the #& $% street signs, because your nav system tells you to take a right on some street, it can be an excercise in frustration (I have a "talking" garmin for my motorcycle). I actually kind of like the progress bar, and it works well for me. It would be nice if hte system did BOTH, but hey, it ain't bad... By the way, for those that are pouring through their owner's manuals like lawyers to find the truth of the systems operations, you're going to find a lot of places in the manual that refer to other places that don't even exist. You'll also find places where the manual is just plain wrong. Let's hope Nissan's quality control is better on their cars than it is on their owner's manuals...
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