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iscom   
Tue May 15 2018, 03:57am
Member No: #20936
Joined: Jul 21 2011
Location: Ireland Fermanagh & Galway
 Just a quick comment about tiny shelf below the steering wheel I find the very handy for keeping my travel document such as Passports, Ferry tickets, hotel booking docs, travel and car insurance doc all in a A5 plastic wallet plus it very discreet yet easy to access of course remove when I get to my destination
stoic   
Fri May 18 2018, 05:25am
Member No: #49774
Joined: Oct 31 2017
Location: Leicester
 Since I released the latest beta version of MyConnectedCar for ConnectNav and SMEG+ systems, I've noticed that the GPS coordinates are super accurate. If I plot them on a map (or run a Desination Map Report in MyConnectedCar) I can identify which parking bay I park in each day at work! I dunno if that's scary, or impressive!
proinnsias   
Fri May 18 2018, 11:38am
Member No: #43821
Joined: Feb 21 2016
Location: Dublin
 Consumer GPS is considered accurate to within 5m at 95% confidence - so either your parking bays are massive, or you're supplementing GPS / GLONASS with GSM positioning etc

Now - the new Galileo satellites should be good to sub 1m accuracy - if & when they're supported.
stoic   
Fri May 18 2018, 12:27pm
Member No: #49774
Joined: Oct 31 2017
Location: Leicester
proinnsias wrote ...

Consumer GPS is considered accurate to within 5m at 95% confidence - so either your parking bays are massive, or you're supplementing GPS / GLONASS with GSM positioning etc

Now - the new Galileo satellites should be good to sub 1m accuracy - if & when they're supported.


Plotting the SatNav locations on Google Satellite maps shows which side of two rows of cars I park. Also I can tell basically where I park. OK, it may have an accuracy of one bay which fits within 5m. I can tell if I park at the end (late arrival) or closer to the entrance, the earlier I arrive.

My school is on the top of a hill with little vegetation around, so should have good sight of satelites.

In a previous life I worked as an MOD contractor. The military grade GPS units were pretty accurate.
stoic   
Fri May 18 2018, 01:00pm
Member No: #49774
Joined: Oct 31 2017
Location: Leicester
 @proinnsias

These are my parking locations at school for this week....

http://myconnectedcar.zapto.org/images/parking.jpg
stoic   
Sat Jun 02 2018, 12:01pm
Member No: #49774
Joined: Oct 31 2017
Location: Leicester
 The handsfree tailgate is an absolute pain as it's only occasionally works. I do wonder if it's down to the light level, though I do have the detachable tow bar which may hinder it's operation too.

I am too tight to pay for the "danger areas" so occasionally use Waze+AndroidAuto to look out for safety cameras when I am somewhere new. I had the built in navigation system (aka TomTom) navigating for me, and wanted to make a minor detour to a local supermarket. Rather than trawl through pages of TomTom POIs, I used the voice recogition in AndroidAuto to tell Waze to navigate instead. I hoped to have two nagivation systems working at the same time! Sadly not When Waze navigates on the 7" screen, the TomTom system on the 12" gets cancelled. Gaah! A tad annoying.
stoic   
Sat Jun 16 2018, 05:07pm
Member No: #49774
Joined: Oct 31 2017
Location: Leicester
 I drove past the M1 roadworks around Nottingham yesterday. I was shocked and impressed that the speed sign recognition camera / system recognised not only the standard speed signs as normal but also the dot-matrix displays above the road. This will be particularly handy when avoiding the safety cameras.
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stoic   
Fri Jul 06 2018, 10:35am
Member No: #49774
Joined: Oct 31 2017
Location: Leicester
 I know a lot of people disable the "Stop and Start" system, but I actually quite like the idea. After some city driving last week, the car told me that I had spent a total 5 minutes in stop mode. Now that's only 5 minutes in idle so I'm not going to save that much in fuel.

I do however live down the road from a primary school. Some lazy slobs that can't be bothered the collect their kids from the school gate, park up and keep their engines running so that the aircon works. They do make my village smell at school run time.

5 minutes of less fumes emitted is better for everyone, howver I'm not going to save loads on fuel.
vimto2000   
Mon Jul 09 2018, 04:53am
Member No: #37385
Joined: Sep 17 2014
Location: Manchester
 I think it makes a difference with the Auto box as you don't have to think about it much. I know with other vehicles and the auto stop start with a manual is awful! Just too slow to fire up before you move off.

I've done runs where stuck in traffic and the amount the stop start has kicked in is 20mins+! Thats gotta be good for the environment, will probably save nothing in fuel worth raving on about though!
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