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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 03:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How To Check Best AUDI DVD Navigation Features ？]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To make people stay on your online store and convince them to make a AUDI DVD Navigation purchase from the ecommerce website, you need to have some features added to your online business store. A professional AUDI DVD Navigation System instructions is essential for a successful online selling.

Real-time traffic reports
Units with traffic information can alert you to a problem or slowdown ahead in time to avoid it. Some will even ask if you want to find another route and will detour you at the touch of a button. The real-time data is available to subscribers through a cell-phone network, FM signal, or satellite radio service. We're seeing more and more devices with free, advertising-supported traffic information, but some are still subscription based, and some require an additional receiver costing up to $100. Free traffic information is supported by small banner ads that pop up on screen. How often they appear varies by region and density of advertising businesses. Several companies, such as Garmin, offer this feature on some AUDI DVD Navigation models. Another emerging trend is that some new models factor in historical traffic data when calculating routes and can guide you around known congestion patterns such as rush-hour traffic.

Predictive data entry and dynamic search
AUDI DVD Navigation GPS features make entering a city name or address faster. With predictive data entry, as you type, the screen's keyboard will highlight only letters that help complete a known name. If you type "Pitt", for example, the system will then likely highlight "S" as the next letter for Pittsburgh.
Almost all models have dynamic search. This common AUDI A6 Navigation GPS device feature helps narrow things down as you tap in an address. With dynamic search, if you type "San", the unit might offer up a list of choices including San Diego, San Francisco, or Santa Barbara. You can then pick one from the list or just keep typing.

Detour feature
If you see traffic building up ahead, a manual "detour" button will find you an alternative route. Some models like AUDI A4 GPS allow the user to select a specific distance to route around a problem. Traffic-capable devices integrate their traffic information with detouring functions, prompting a user to choose an alternative route when traffic conditions are unfavorable. That can be helpful in evaluating options before changing course.

Routing options
AUDI DVD Navigation system can alert you to toll roads on your chosen route and often allow you to select a route that avoids them. Other routing options you might want to look for include multiple trips, or routes for biking or walking that avoid highways and let walkers go against one-way traffic.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How To Make Your AUDI DVD Navigation System Safer ?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.autocarplaza.com/blog/How-To-Make-Your-AUDI-DVD-Navigation/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I was watching The Colbert Report do a segment on Obama’s State of the Union address. During one part of the speech, Obama encouraged entrepreneurship as a cure to our current economic crisis, reminding us that America is responsible for putting cars in driveways and computers in offices. Colbert made a joke about how we then proceeded to put computers in cars, which put the cars in offices thanks to poor drivers distracted by their touchscreen AUDI A6 Navigation systems.

We hear stories all the time about people who drove their car into a ditch or into their garage door because they were looking at the screen instead of the road. Obviously, having a touch screen AUDI DVD Navigation in the car is not good for safety. Some car manufacturers have tried to address this by preventing the screen from being used while the car is moving, but this is a huge annoyance for a passenger who should be allowed to freely use the screen.

In November, I competed in Lawrence Tech University’s Innovation Encounter, which is basically a product design competition where you are given a problem and you have three hours to design a solution and present it. In this particular competition, we were tasked with designing the best way to integrate an iPhone with the car.

My team and I decided to focus on improving the experience of using one’s phone in the car, rather than creating any new overt features. For example, it’s annoying to have to carry my keys everywhere when I already carry my phone, to have to plug my phone in every time I get in the car, and to switch between using my phone and using my car’s AUDI A4 GPS control system. We designed an elegant solution that would solve each of these problems.

Once I’m in the car, I don’t want to have to look for a USB cable and plug my phone in before I start driving. Usually, I just drop my phone in a cup holder and go. So why not inductively charge my phone through the cup holder? If inductive charging won’t work, why not at least make some sort of universal docking system for the cup holder that at least makes it easier to plug my phone in? Of course, these solutions would need to be waterproof so that it still functions as a cup holder.

Finally, instead of switching back and forth between my phone’s interface and my AUDI DVD Navigation interface, why not just let my phone control my car and not require me to even fiddle with the car? The most common adjustments a driver makes when entering his car are to adjust the rear view mirror, fix the seat location, change the air conditioning temperature, input a location in the navigation system, and play some music. If we are using our phone as our key, then the car already knows which person is driving based on the phone that is in the driver’s seat, so it can automatically adjust the rear view mirror and seat location based on the user’s saved preferences. I’ve seen cars that support driver profiles, but none that automatically switch based on recognizing the driver’s phone. Usually, I adjust my car’s interior temperature when it is either extremely hot outside or extremely cold. That means that ideally, I want to set the temperature while I am still inside my house or office. I should be able to easily choose a temperature on my phone and push it to my car, which will enable the air conditioning so that the car is waiting for me at perfect temperature when I get there. While I’m setting the temperature, I want to be able to also push the directions I looked up on my AUDI DVD Navigation’s built-in maps app to the car’s screen without fiddling with a second navigation system. Now, when I get into my car, everything is set up, the temperature is perfect, and the car already knows where I’m going. As soon as I enter the car, it should begin streaming my music from my phone via Bluetooth. We call this system SmartHawk.


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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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