Traffic Avoidance

[Phillip Coetser]

Hi all...I wonder how many forumites are still using their Pnd units to avoid traffic on a daily basis.
What is traffic avoidance?
•Garmin Traffic delivers alerts about wrecks, slow downs and construction delays. It’s just like a radio traffic report, only you don’t have to wait for the radio station to air the report. Your navigator monitors traffic conditions automatically on your specific route and in your area, provided that your unit has a traffic service subscription, and a Traffic
•With the Smartphone Link app, Live Traffic delivers up-to-date “live” traffic information to your navigator using your existing mobile data plan, when connected to your smartphone.

Traffic alerts come from a traffic data collection system that analyzes traffic flow data collected from more than 2 billion observation points every month:
•data from millions of Garmin device owners
•data from millions of cellular phone owners
•incident reports
•radio feeds of live information
•news stations
•historical traffic data from HERE Traffic Supply
•historical traffic data from Garmin device owners
•fixed traffic sensors on major roads giving extremely accurate traffic reports

•Traffic data collected from more observation points, more often, helps your navigator find efficient driving routes for you.
•Devices with “T” in the model name include lifetime traffic. So you don't have to purchase a separate traffic receiver or traffic subscription. Just plug it in and go.
•To get lifetime traffic on a traffic-compatible device, simply purchase a separate traffic receiver GTM 60 HD Digital Traffic Receiver (https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/104181#devices) or GTM 36 (https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/10058 ... 02#devices). Make sure your device is compatible before purchasing.

Regards.