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Alert Only Mode, Traveling with the Alert Mode On, Live Alert

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Alert Only Mode This mode will not provide you with new routing information, it will only alert you to the event. 1. Access the Main Menu and select User Options. 2. Scroll down the list and select Traffic Options 3. Select Traffic Selection. 4. Check the Traffic Active option and make sure the Use alternative route option is deselected. 5. Select the Alert Options button on the screen. A new screen appears on which you can set the options relevant to the Alert mode. Check one or more of the following options: Live Alert: When checked, the receiver will inform you of a traffic event located along your route as soon as it is detected. Reminder at 40 mi: If you check this option, the receiver will remind you of the traffic event it has received earlier. The message will appear when this event, located somewhere along your route, is 40 miles away from your current location (not a point-to-point distance but measured along the route). Reminder at 20 mi: Same as above but the distance from the event is only 20 miles Reminder at 10 mi: Same as above but the distance from the event is only10 miles 6. Select Save to validate your choices and then come back to your usual guidance screen. Traveling with the Alert Mode On When you use the TrafficKit in the Alert Mode, the following will occur when new Traffic events are received: • If an event affects your route, a warning message will appear on the screen at a time or distance defined in the Alert Options menu. • If you do not acknowledge the message by pressing the ENTER button, it will automatically disappear after 10 seconds. Additional warning messages, if any, will appear in turn on the screen. • Events that affect your route will also appear as road signs in the maneuver list, and also in the lower part of the True View screen. See examples below: • The map screen will show road signs corresponding to the Traffic events, including those which do not affect the route. You can obtain detailed information on any event by selecting the icon on the map screen. A dialog box will open containing a description of the event. Traffic 41

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Traffic
41
Alert Only Mode
This mode
will
not
provide you with new routing information, it will only alert you to the event.
1.
Access the
Main Menu
and select
User
Options.
2.
Scroll down the list and select
Traffic Options
3.
Select
Traffic Selection.
4.
Check the
Traffic Active
option and make sure the
Use alternative route
option is deselected.
5.
Select the
Alert Options
button on the screen. A
new screen appears on which you can set the
options relevant to the Alert mode.
Check one or more of the following options:
Live Alert
: When checked, the receiver will
inform you of a traffic event located along your
route as soon as it is detected.
Reminder at 40 mi
: If you check this option, the receiver will remind you of the traffic event
it has received earlier. The message will appear when this event, located somewhere along
your route, is 40 miles away from your current location (not a point-to-point distance but
measured along the route).
Reminder at 20 mi
: Same as above but the distance from the event is only 20 miles
Reminder at 10 mi
: Same as above but the distance from the event is only10 miles
6.
Select
Save
to validate your choices and then come back to your usual guidance screen.
Traveling with the Alert Mode On
When you use the TrafficKit in the Alert Mode, the following will occur when new Traffic events are
received:
•
If an event affects your route, a warning message will appear on the screen at a time or
distance defined in the Alert Options menu.
•
If you do not acknowledge the message by pressing the
ENTER
button, it will
automatically disappear after 10 seconds. Additional warning messages, if any, will appear
in turn on the screen.
•
Events that affect your route will also appear as road signs in the maneuver list, and also
in the lower part of the True View screen. See examples below:
•
The map screen will show road signs corresponding to the Traffic events, including those
which do not affect the route. You can obtain detailed information on any event by
selecting the icon on the map screen. A dialog box will open containing a description of
the event.