All GPS navigational aids claim that they can help you ditch the traffic jam and get to your destination faster and with less hassle. The TomTom Go 540 Live claims that it can do it better than anyone else, with more accuracy and with fewer misinformation incidents. To understand why the TomTom company is so certain it can measure up, one has to understand the technology that it utilizes and the technology that other companies use.
The TomTom GPS navigational aids are designed to help you skip the traffic jams and land at your final destination more informed, faster, safer, and more aware. “Old” technology has previously recorded a random selection of cell phone signals in order to determine traffic density. For some, this has proven to be a system of fallible and damnable inconsistencies.
Traffic patterns can change very quickly. Following an accident, it only takes two minutes on a major roadway for traffic to build up into a thirty minute or longer delay. With most GPS navigational systems, traffic updates are provided about every ten to twenty minutes, with most averaging about fifteen minutes. When you are faced with split second decisions regarding quick exits and the long way around, fifteen minutes is simply too long to determine accurate traffic density.
The TomTom Go 540 Live receives its traffic updates differently in order to prevent this rather common occurrence. The use of cell phone density technology, which tracks viable cell phone signals in order to determine how many cars are en route at any given moment, works much better when an accurate density can be recorded and distributed at a faster interval. The TomTom Go 540 Live offers these updates at two minute intervals and it will interject a redirect route often before you are even aware of the potential for incident. An RDS—TCM receiver has been added into the cell phone signal selection in order to provide more accurate and current information to the driver.
While the TomTom company has strived to create personal GPS navigation systems that offer everything from hands free safe communications to weather updates or buddy texting, they have effectively become a leader in the simplest and most basic of functions for a GPS system as well. A GPS system that can deliver real time, accurate traffic hazard information covers one out of the two major reasons that people buy these products to begin with.
With updates for mapping and free downloads that provide all roadway changes they have covered the second reason people buy GPS systems. The entire point of owning a personal navigational device is to be able to arrive at one’s destination as quickly as possible. Safety, responsibility, and direct control features have been added that enhance these two very basic functions. It is a bit revealing to notice that years after the release of the first personal GPS model there is now a company on the move that offers a great number of features without skimping on the basic design of the GPS in the first place.
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