Thread: Which features do you like most in your Nuvi ? Which are the useful ones in your opinion ?

Originally Posted by Kanopus

As Giomen has noticed, ALG on this video is wrong, it suggest that you have only one line to choose, while 2 lines are correct.

I do not understand a situation on screen even in home armchair on 19" monitor!
I think it may be very useful for famous Garmin charade only: Keep left! Then keep right! (Moving to one of middle exits). Usual JCV is useless in this case and only birdseye may give several instruction. But I would see if it is so for ALG...

Originally Posted by Kanopus

As Giomen has noticed, ALG on this video is wrong, it suggest that you have only one line to choose, while 2 lines are correct. .....

Sorry, but i can't see that it is anything other that exemplary correct. Watch it again, at ~6 sec into the video the LA is warning that in 0.6 miles the vehicle needs to be in the inner (second) right lane of 5 lanes:

Then an upcoming added left lane shows on the ALG, so the truck would correctly be in the far right lane of the presently 4 lanes which is about to become the inner (second) right of 5 lanes as was previously predicted by LA about half a mile back:



Finally, at the end of the video, we can see that there are now five lanes of which the two right lanes can take the first exit but only the inner right can take the second exit which is the truck's route:

........ Other notice - while ALG can invoke some nice reminiscences to ZX Spectrum, its animation is completely useless, it doesn't give any more information than static LA. Or maybe Garmin expect, that when you notice approaching exit on far end of ALG you will stay watching animation for some seconds?

So it does give more info than the static LA and in fact compliments, reinforces and builds on the LA info, and there's no need to stay watching, it lets you glance back and forth to quickly assess your position well in advance and so imo it's not useless, not completely or even slightly. It's a great tool for truckies stuck in the wrong lane in unfamiliar territory. Unknowing drivers may well move over immediately into the added right lane and be then be forced to exit one before the intended ramp. You can't duck around in a double-B or 22-wheeler semi like Giomen can in his Maserati.

@Giomen, did you mean leftmost (far left) lane? Or is that a typo and should be rightmost (far right). What would trucks be doing in the fast lane with the 'rabbits' anyway?? [I'm thinking the rabbits are 'lane-hoppers', maybe?].

I have the utmost respect for you two guys, but i think you've being perhaps a little too quick to judge this feature and particularly from the point of view of heavy vehicle drivers. It's more dismissible to car drivers perhaps as they can lane-hop more freely. This is a real benefit, not useless eye-candy as is JCV imo. I don't wish to offend anyone and i'll defend everybody's entitlement to an opposing opinion, but if you re-watch the video carefully imagining you're behind the wheel of even just a big rigid, you may see things a bit differently.