Setting Alternative Route To Avoid Traffic Jam - Pioneer AVIC-HD1BT Operation Manual

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such as and touch
place names and other detail information.
Setting alternative route to
avoid traffic jam
The navigation system checks at certain time
intervals whether or not there is the traffic infor-
mation on your route. If the navigation system
detects any traffic jam on your current route, the
system tries to find a better route in the back-
ground.
Following types of traffic incidents on the
route will be checked: slow, queuing and sta-
tionary traffic and closed/blocked roads.
Checking traffic jam automatically
If there is information of traffic jam on your cur-
rent route and if an alternative route can be
found, the navigation system will recommend you
new alternative route automatically. In such case,
the following screen will appear.
There is no action if the system cannot find
any traffic jam information on your route or
the system cannot find an alternative.
Distance from the current position of
your vehicle to the point of entry into
the new route.
Difference in distance and travel time
between existing route and new route.
On this screen, you can select the following
items:
New:
The recommended route is displayed on the
screen.
Current:
The current route is displayed on the screen.
OK:
The displayed route is set.
When no selection is made, the current route
will be automatically selected after a short
while.
. This allows you to view
Checking traffic information manually
Touching notification icon on the map screen
allows you to check traffic information on your
route while icon is displayed. Only if there is any
traffic information on your route, notification icon
is displayed on the navigation map screen.
Notification icon will not be available when
your vehicle deviate from route.
1
Set [Show Traffic Incident] to [View].
"Show Traffic Incident"
2
Press the MAP button to display the cur-
rent location.
The icon appears when the system acquires
traffic information on the current route.
3
Touch icon during the icon is displayed.
Notification icon
The displayed icon indicates the type of the
traffic information.
4
Touch [Diversion] to search alternative
route.
Only if the system can find the information
related traffic jam, [Diversion] will be ena-
ble.
After touching [Diversion], the route is recal-
culated taking all traffic jam on your current
route into account.
The traffic information displayed on the
notification icon is the traffic information
on the route closest to the vehicle position.
If you touch [Diversion], the route is recal-
culated by taking into account not only this
information, but also all traffic jam infor-
mation on the route.
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