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Old August 5th 06, 01:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jonathan Goodish
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Default Garmin 596 Ideas

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"Kyle Boatright" wrote:
Speaking of automotive use, a really neat feature would be live traffic
updates, showing traffic jams and suggesting alternate routes. This could
really help commuters in the larger cities which have active traffic
management systems. Also, it would be a safety feature because it would
alert you to traffic jams before you ran up on them doing 80 on the
interstate...



Garmin supports XM NavTraffic in some of their automotive units. Not
sure why they aren't supporting it on the 396/496, other than the fact
that those units are intended primarily as aviation units.



JKG