TomTom Go X50 Live Manual
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71 You can set your navigation device to always change to the fastest route with- out asking you in the Traffic preferences in the Traffic menu. Open the Traffic menu by tapping the traffic sidebar. To replan your route manually to find the quickest route to your destination, do the following: 1. Tap the traffic sidebar. Tip : If you have trouble tapping the sidebar and the Main Menu is being dis- played instead of the traffic menu, try tapping your finger half on the sidebar and half off the screen. 2. Tap Minimise delays . Your device looks for the quicke st route to your destination. It is possible that the new route may also include traffic delays, or may even be the same route as before. You can re-plan the route to avoid all delays, but this new route will take longer than the quickest route already shown. 3. Tap Done. Notifications about changes in the traffic situation You can set HD Traffic to report when the traffic situation on your route changes. 1. Tap HD Traffic in the Main Menu. 2. Tap Traffic preferences . 3. Select Report if traffic on route changes . 4. Tap Done. Changing HD Traffic preferences Use the Traffic preferences button to choose how HD Traffic works on your device. 1. Tap the traffic sidebar to open the Traffic menu. 2. Tap Traffic preferences . 3. To hear a beep sound when a new traffic incident occurs on your route, select Report if traffic on route changes and then tap Done. 4. If a faster route is found while you ar e driving, Traffic can replan your jour- ney to use the faster route. Select one of the following options and then tap Done . • Always switch to that route • Ask me if I want to change • Never change my route Making commuting to work easier The Home to work or Work to home buttons in the Traffic menu lets you check your route to and from wo rk with one tap of a button. When you use either of these buttons, your device plans a route between your home and work locations and checks the route for possible delays. Traffic preferences
72 The first time you use Home to work, you must set your traffic home and work locations. You can now use the Home to work and Work to home buttons. Note: The home location you set here is not the same as the home location you can set in the Preferences Menu . In addition, the locations you use here do not have to be your actual home an d work locations. If there is another route that you often travel, you can set Work/Home to use these locations instead. For example, to check for delays on your route home before you leave the office, do the following: 1. Tap the traffic sidebar to open the Traffic menu. 2. Tap Show home-work traffic . 3. Tap Work to home . The Driving View is shown and a message is displayed telling you about traffic incidents on this route. The Traffic sidebar also shows any delays. Checking traffic incidents in your area Get an overview of the traffic situation in your area, using the map. To find local incidents and their details, do the following: 1. Tap the traffic sidebar to open the Traffic menu. 2. Tap Browse map . The map browser screen is shown. 3. If the map does not show your locati on, tap the marker to centre the map on your current location. The map shows traffic incidents in the area. Change home-work 1. Tap the traffic sidebar to open the Traffic menu. 2. Tap Show home-work traffic . 3. Set your home location and your work location. If you have already set the locations and want to change them, tap Change home-work . Browse map
73 4. Tap on any traffic incident to get more information.A screen is shown that gives you detailed information about the incident you chose. To display information about surrounding incidents use the left and right arrows at the bottom of this screen. Show traffic on route To check for delays on your route, tap Show traffic on route in the Traffic menu. Your navigation device shows a summary of the traffic delays on your route. The total includes any delays due to tr affic incidents and those due to busy roads, with information provided by IQ Routes. Tap Minimise delays to check if you can reduce the delay. Note: You can also access the Show traffic on route screen by tapping the traffic area of the LIVE summary tab. Traffic sidebar colours The traffic sidebar changes colour depe nding on how old the traffic informa- tion is on your device: The traffic information on your device is updated automatically and the traffic sidebar will normally remain dark blue. However, it is possible that the device is unable to update traffic information, if, for example, there is no GPRS network coverage at your location. Traffic incidents Traffic incidents are displayed as symbols on the Driving View and the traffic sidebar. There are two type of symbols: • Symbols shown in a red square are incidents that HD Traffic can help you to avoid. • Symbols shown in a red triangle are weather related and are for information only. You cannot use HD Traffic to avoid them. Dark blue - The traffic information on your device is up to date. Lilac - The traffic information on your device has not been updated for at least 10 minutes. HD Traffic still warns you about traffic incidents, but the information is at least ten minutes old. Grey - The traffic information on your device has not been updated for at least 15 minutes. HD Traffic will only warn you about traffic incidents once it has been able to update this infor- mation.
74 Traffic incident symbols: Weather related symbols: Traffic menu To open the Traffic menu, tap the traffic sidebar in the Driving View or tap HD Traffic in the Main Menu. The following buttons are available: Accident Road works One or more lanes closed Road closed Traffic incident Traffic jam Fog Rain Wind Ice Snow Note : The incident avoided symbol is shown for any traffic incident that you avoid using TomTom HD Traffic. Minimise traffic delays Tap this button to re-plan your route based on the latest traffic information.
75 Show traffic on route Tap this button to get an overview of an y traffic incidents along your route. Use the left and right buttons of the overview screen to see more detailed information about each incident. You can also tap Replan to replan your route avoiding the traffic incidents. Show home- work traffic Tap this button to calculate and show the quickest route from your home location to your place of wo rk or from work to home. Browse map Tap this button to browse the map and see the traffic information displayed on the map. Traffic preferences Tap this button to change your preferences for how TomTom HD Traffic works on your device.
TomTom Safety Alerts21. 76 TomTom Safety AlertsThe TomTom Safety Alerts service warns you about a variety of locations including: • Safety camera locations. • Accident blackspot locations. • Mobile safety camera locations. • Average speed camera locations. • Toll road camera locations. • Traffic light camera locations. Important: Regularly connect your navigation device to TomTom HOME to update the list of locations for all types of safety alerts. The locations of mobile cameras are sent directly to your device. When a safety camera location is sh own on the map, a warning sound is played to warn you that you are appr oaching an area where a safety camera is located. If you discover a location that has a sa fety camera but you receive no warning, you can report the new location to TomTom using your GO. Setting up Safety Cameras The TomTom Safety Camera service is a subscription service that you can join using TomTom HOME. To download the latest camera locations to your device, click Update my device in TomTom HOME. Updating location s for safety alerts The locations of safety cameras can change frequently. New cameras can also appear without warning and the location s for other alerts, such as accident blackspots, may also change position. As a result, you may want to have the la test list of camera and alert locations on your device before you start a journey. T o e n s u r e t h a t y o u h a v e t h e l a t e s t l i s t , c o n n e c t y o u r G O t o T o m T o m H O M E o n your computer shortly before you begin each journey. Your device is then automatically updated with all the latest locations. The locations of mobile cameras are sent directly to your device when you are driving. Safety camera warnings Warnings are given 15 seconds before you reach a safety camera location. You are warned in three ways: • Your TomTom GO plays a warning sound.
77 • The type of safety camera and your distance from the camera location is shown in the Driving View. If a speed restriction has been reported for the camera, the speed is also shown in the Driving View. • The location of the safety camera is shown on the map. Note: For average speed safety cameras, you are warned by a combination of icons and sounds at the start, middle and end of the average speed check zone. For more information, see: Changing the way you are warned . Changing the way you are warned Report button To show the report button in the Driving View, do the following: 1. Tap Services in the Main Menu. 2. Tap Safety Alerts . 3. Tap Enable report button. The report button is shown on left-hand side of the Driving View or if you are already using the quick menu, it’s added to the buttons available in the quick menu. Reporting a new safety ca mera while on the move 1. Tap the report button shown in the Driving View or in the quick menu to record the location of the camera. Change warningpreferences To change the way your TomTom GO warns you about safety cameras, tap the Change warning preferences button. You can then set how close you want to be to a safety camera before you are warned and what type of sound will be played. For example, to change the sound that is played when you approach a fixed safety camera, do the following: 1. Tap TomTom Safety Cameras in the Main Menu. 2. Tap Change warning preferences . A list of safety camera types is disp layed. A speaker is shown next to the speed camera types that have been set for an alert. 3. Tap Fixed safety cameras. 4. Tap NO to avoid removing the fixed safety camera alerts. 5. Enter the time in seconds for when a warning is given before you reach a camera. Then tap OK. 6. Tap the sound you want to be used for the warning. For example, to select a bugle sound tap on Bugle. Tips: To switch off warning sounds for a camera type, tap Silence instead of Bugle in step 6 above. To record your own warning sound for a camera type, tap Record warning instead of Bugle in step 6 above. 7. Tap YES to save your changes.
78 If you tap the report button within 20 seconds of receiving a safety camera warning, you get the option to a dd a camera or remove a camera. Tap Add camera . 2. Tap Fixed camera or Mobile camera , depending on the type of camera you are reporting. 3. Tap the type of camera you want to report. Note: If the type of camera you choose has a speed restriction, you can also enter the speed. The locations of cameras you report are reported when you next connect your device to TomTom HOME. Reporting a new safety camera while at home Y o u d o n o t n e e d t o b e a t t h e l o c a t i o n o f a s a f e t y c a m e r a t o r e p o r t t h e n e w l o c a - tion. To report a new safety camera location while you are at home, do the follow- ing: 1. Tap Services in the Main Menu on your device. 2. Tap Safety Alerts . 3. Tap Report safety camera . 4. Tap Fixed camera or Mobile camera depending upon the type of safety camera. 5. Find the location of the camera you want to report using the Map browser. Use the cursor to mark the exact location, then tap Done. 6. Tap on the type of camera you want to report and if necessary, the speed restriction for the camera. Reporting incorrect camera alerts You may receive an alert for a camera that is no longer there. To report an incorrect camera alert, do the following: 1. While you are at the location of the missing camera, tap Report in the Driv- ing View. Note : This must be done within 20 seco nds of receiving the camera alert. 2. Tap Remove . The next time you connect your device to TomTom HOME, the camera alert is reported as incorrect. Types of fixed safety camera you can report When you report a fixed safety camera, you can select the type of fixed cam- era you are reporting.
79 These are the different types of fixed safety camera: Average speed check camera warnings There are several types of visual and audible warnings that you may see when you meet an average speed check camera. You always receive a start and end zone warning regardless of the speed you are travelling at. Intermediate warnings, if given, occur every 200 meters. All the warnings are described below: Speed camera This type of safety camera checks the speed of passing vehicles. Traffic light camera This type of safety camera checks for vehicles breaking traffic rules at traffic lights. Toll road camera This type of safety camera moni tors traffic at toll road barriers. Average speed check This type of safety camera checks the average speed of vehicles between two fixed points. Vehicle restriction This type of safety camera checks traffic on roads where access is restricted. Other camera All other types of camera that do not fall into any of the above categories. Start of zone warning As you approach the start of an average speed check zone, you see a visual warning in the top left hand corner of the Driving View with a distance to the camera underneath it. You hear an audible warning. You also see a small icon on the road showing the position of the average speed check camera at the start of the zone. Intermediate warning - type 1 Once in the speed check zone, if you are not speeding and have already received a start of zone warning, you see a visual warning in the Driving View. This reminds you that you are still in the speed check zone.
80 TomTom Safety Camera menu To open the Safety Cameras menu, tap Services in the Main Menu and then tap Safety Alerts . Intermediate warning - type 2 Once in the speed check zone, if yo u are driving at over 100% of the per- mitted speed and and have already received a start of zone warning, you see a visual warning in the Driving View indicating the maximum permitted speed. You also hear a small audible warning. These warnings are there to remind you to slow down... Intermediate warning - type 3 Once in the speed check zone, if yo u are driving at over 100% of the per- mitted speed and and have not received a start of zone warning, you see a visual warning in the Driving View indicating the maximum permitted speed. You also hear a loud audible warning. These warnings occur at the FIRST intermediate point only and are there to remind you to slow down... End of zone warning As you approach the end of an average speed check zone, you see a visual warning in the Driving View with a distance to the camera shown under- neath it. You hear an audible warning. You also see a small icon on the road showing the position of the average speed check camera at the end of the zone. Report safety camera Tap this button to report a new safety camera location. Change warning preferences Tap this button to set the safety al erts you will receive and which sounds will be used for each alert. Disable alerts Tap this button to di sable safety alerts. Enable report button Tap this button to enable the report button. The report button is shown in the Driving View or in the quick menu.