I hope they have conquered the glitches that the "Road Test" .9 units have (had?) - I'd be driving around and suddenly the icon of my car would start spinning around like crazy and then the map would take forever to reorient itself - often showing me driving in the direction opposite to that which I was actually driving for miles, that and the ABYSMAL amount of time it would take to lock on to a satellite while my friend's Nuvi would do it in seconds. But the most irritating thing was the routing. It would completely ignore one way boulevards with timed lights and try to send me on side streets with stop signs or lights every block. Not an issue since I know my way around my town, but I can see it being a total PITA if you're using it to find your way around someplace new. Frankly, compared to the competition I think the price is way out of line (not to mention the subscription fee). Other that the open API which might allow for some interesting value added type applications, it's one claim to fame is the live traffic - which (as I understand it) works best when the units can communicate with each other to aggregate data. So: too expensive= fewer people buy=less units on the road=less accurate traffic data=what's the point unless you're a real estate agent using the Zillow database cross referenced to your location? The CEO of the company stated that the hoped Dash would become the iPod of GPS systems. Ummmm not so much... The Pleo of GPS maybe.
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I hope they have conquered the glitches that the "Road Test" .9 units have (had?) - I'd be driving around and suddenly the icon of my car would start spinning around like crazy and then the map would take forever to reorient itself - often showing me driving in the direction opposite to that which I was actually driving for miles, that and the ABYSMAL amount of time it would take to lock on to a satellite while my friend's Nuvi would do it in seconds. But the most irritating thing was the routing. It would completely ignore one way boulevards with timed lights and try to send me on side streets with stop signs or lights every block. Not an issue since I know my way around my town, but I can see it being a total PITA if you're using it to find your way around someplace new. Frankly, compared to the competition I think the price is way out of line (not to mention the subscription fee). Other that the open API which might allow for some interesting value added type applications, it's one claim to fame is the live traffic - which (as I understand it) works best when the units can communicate with each other to aggregate data. So: too expensive= fewer people buy=less units on the road=less accurate traffic data=what's the point unless you're a real estate agent using the Zillow database cross referenced to your location? The CEO of the company stated that the hoped Dash would become the iPod of GPS systems. Ummmm not so much... The Pleo of GPS maybe.