multiple lane guidance in cities?

Viper · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 69

Does Tom Tom 6 tell you which lane you need to be in, when say you were driving through a city with multiple lanes. i.e. stay right, stay left or keep straight on. Or similar intructions.

I hope someone can help me.

Steve

Skippy · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

No, but it does tell you the distance to the next instruction and shows an icon depicting a left/right turn etc which gives some idea of what lane to be in.
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Viper · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 69

Thanks for you reply skippy,

I am disappointed with that but it won't stop me buying the software,

I have had the v2 miomap software for quite a bit now and that gives me a verbal indication to what lane I should be in, which was quite a lot better than copilot when navigating through cities etc which left me guessing sometimes.

I would of thought tomtom would do it as well!

Steve

ItsMikeE · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject:

It does give some "keep left" . "keep right" instructions well before you get to a split in lanes.

Viper · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 69

Thanks Mike, I am pleased about that, but I persume it wouldn't give a road number to follow as well? I say that because mio sometimes did, like "keep to the left and follow the A_ _ _"

Steve

ItsMikeE · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:

No road numbers.
It gives a warning like "keep left" and then a while later "take the left exit", or "keep right" then a while later "go straight on" when you should not take the exit slip road.
Sometimes you get info like "take 2nd left"
As Skippy said there is also the visual information.

MrT · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

It can display the next road number you should be turning onto.

Skippy · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:

Viper · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 69

At least it does warn you of what lane to get into, it's got to be better than copilot which didn't give you any warning at all. I suppose you do get used to the software you are using

Regards

Steve

MrT · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:38 am Post subject:

There does appear to be a difference in TT6 voice instructions as compared to TT5, in that the follow instructions seem different in that you get statements like "turn left then after 50 yards turn right", or "turn left then take the second right".

You still get the very odd instruction for a right turn such as "turn left then do a U turn" which I think is due to a map direction error on a filter lane.

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