Garmin Live Traffic
I just ordered a Garmin RV 760LMT. We have a Garmin Nuvi 750 that is 5 years old and it has served us well. Other than a few directional or location errors (data is only as accurate as the person in...
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CallThisCamping?! wrote:
The smartphone link traffic is different than the default lmT that comes with the RV760. I believe it uses the data from Google maps traffic, which, I believe gets its' data from mobile users motion in aggregate, so it has a much wider coverage area that the somewhat limited power cord traffic receiver. The smartphone link traffic alerts you to traffic ahead, and construction delay on your route, and displays right on your screen.
I also subscribed to the weather and got severe weather alerts and animated weather maps on the GPS.
The subscription is for the life of the device, not an annual fee.
x2. IMHO the live traffic, or google maps traffic is far superior to any of the FM traffic providers. near instantaneous traffic updates if there is any cell phone's on the road. cell phones don't even need to be making a call, they are just using the handoff and gps info from the cells to see traffic speed and compare it to road speed limits.
and it will give you traffic info on the vast majority of roadways, unlike the FM traffic. Only downfall is if you are traveling in an area w/o any cell coverage, then there is no cell data to determine traffic from.
FM traffic providers, like the std garmin traffic, only get new traffic info when it is entered into the system.
