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Chapter 7Using Traffic Information NAVI
Checking traffic information manually
Touching notification icon on the map screen
allows you to check traffic information on your
route while icon is displayed. Only if there is any
traffic information on your route, notification icon
is displayed on the navigation map screen.
❒ Notification icon will not appear when your
vehicle deviate from route.
❒ Traffic flow information is not taken into
account if [Traffic Flow] in [Traffic Set-
tings] is not checked.
1 Set [Show Traffic Incidents] to [View].
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2 Press the MAP button to display the cur-
rent location.
The icon appears when the system acquires
traffic information on the current route.
3 Touch icon during the icon is displayed.
The displayed icon indicates the type of the
traffic information.
4 Touch [Detour] to search alternative
route.
❒ Only if the system can find the information
related traffic congestion, [Detour] will be
enable.
After touching [Detour], the route is recalcu-
lated taking all traffic congestion on your cur-
rent route into account.
❒ The traffic information displayed on the
notification icon is the traffic information
on the route closest to the vehicle position.
If you touch [Detour], the route is recalcu-
lated by taking into account not only this
information, but also all traffic congestion
information on the route.
On this screen, you can select the following
items:
List:
Only the three most recent events are listed
for the traffic information on your route.
Back:
The message disappears, and the map display
reappears.
For the subsequent operations, see “Checking
traffic congestion automatically”.
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Selecting traffic information to
display
There are different types of traffic information
that can be received via the XM NavTraffic ser-
vice, and you can select which types will be incor-
porated and displayed on your navigation system.
1 Touch [Information] in the navigation
menu, and then touch [Traffic Settings].
2 Touch [Displayed traffic information].
The names of the displayed traffic information
items and a list of icons appears on the
screen.
Notification icon