710 road speeds - please tell me you can turn them off!!

Skippy · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:21 am Post subject:

Ok, I think I must have misunderstood Embarassed

You wrote "They only use the TWO photos and the road markings to work out your actual speed." (quoted out of context, I know) which I took to mean that you were saying that the sole mechanism for measuring speed was the two photos.

Re-reading what you wrote, I see that it could be taken to mean that the photos/lines were used to verify your speed and I have probably read it the wrong way.
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

I think my "only" is the culprit....

Shall we agree to agree? Laughing

Skippy · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

Fibre · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject:

All I want to do is turn OFF or have the option to turn it OFF or ON the speed warning feature... is that beyond the wit of a simple program change.. (10 mins by a programmer)

We seem to be drifting OFF topic and going down the well worn path of speed accuracy again... Embarassed

PLEASE TOM-TOM ALLOW ME TO TURN OFF THIS UNWANTED (BY ME) FEATURE

Simple
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DennisN · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject:

pauljulian · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 3

A question from an Aussie who just bought a 910 (replacing a Nuvi !):

Is the speed limit of the road known only if it's been programmed into the maps in the first place ? I know Sensis here in Oz do our maps, which are the latest version - but haven't seen the limit/overlimit display....

And one quick off-topic thing - if i'm running 6.522 software, is that definitely TT Nav 6 software ? Just checking, cause it's got a coupla things missing that I thought 6 was meant to have.

Paul.

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:12 am Post subject:

Fibre · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:57 am Post subject:

Fibre · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

DennisN
I am still not sure if I have it correct -- do Tom Tom say that you can -- or cannot - turn of the red flashing speed indicator from the preferences menue...

If so which part??

Sorry for being a thicko..

Maurice
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mikealder · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

Yes you can turn it off BUT you will also lose the speed readout on the screen, the limit, speed and red/ flashing are linked under change preferences/ status bar preferences then de-select the checkbox for speed.
It is a shame that the display is hard to read when flashing red (poor colour contrast, orange would be better IMHO), if it only did this when you were speeding I could live with it, sadly some roads have the speed limit incorrectly set in the map data - Mike

Fibre · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

Tatsfield · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

It is quite deplorable just how amateur the programmers are at TomTom. Leavinf aside whether the speed limit is correct. If it were, it would still be very dangerous to consult the screen to check it. Firstly as has been mentioned the superimposition of red on black is the very worst visibility colour combination that can be chosen and it is obvious that the programmer thinks that red means "danger" so we will all appreciate his warning when red on a dark background means near invisability. Secondly the actual data is flashing which means that it is turned off for 50% of the time it is supposed to be displayed and when you take your eyes momentarily off the road you only have a 50/50 chance that the digits will be there. If they are they are near invisible and if they are not they are completely invisible.

The programmer carried out his work on a computer screen and then on a sat nav unit on his desk which he could stare at continuously. What TomTom have done is produce a downright dangerous device which will encourage drivers to look away from the road for longer than is necessary to read constant light out of dark digits which might cause an accident and lead to the death of the driver. It's a discrace that a fool can do this and no one check his work and correct his gross error.

I paid good money for new maps and I foolishly updated the operating system in TomTom and they have stabbed me in the back. They care little for their customers. I subscribed to their safety camera scheme when it came out and I was forced to delete it as a useless piece of excrement and now this ineptitude is creeping into the very workings of the device. Don't the fools at TomTom ever listen to anything anyone tells them. Talk about incompetent arrogance!

DennisN · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:31 am Post subject:

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