Latest Garmin Innovations Coming (April 1)

Yeah, right Good one.

I don’t DUI but that autopilot mode could be handy for doing things like reloading your spent cases after a drive by shooting and stuff like that.

OK, are any of these true? Remember I am blond

4/1/10 - which is........?

lol... a good one

And Happy April Fools Day to you also.

Can't wait to try autopilot, but if I get pulled over, who gets the ticket?

Obviously, the owner of the car...same as a red light/speed camera ticket. Doesn't matter who's driving!

I don't understand most of the technology but from what I've learned so far, the software update equips your GPS with proximity sensors to detect vehicles and other obstacles which in turn gets inputted into the algorithm that tells your Nuvi whether or not to stop or go.

Additionally traffic lights have been equipped with sensors and transmitters to receive a signal from emergency vehicles (i.e. firetrucks, ambulances, police cars, etc.) so they can remotely change the lights enabling them to enter intersections safely.

That same technology is being delpoyed in reverse so the traffic lights can send an advance signal to your GPS notifying it when it is going to change to a red light. Of course nothing is fool proof and the driver is ultimately responsible and has manual override ability.

Sounds like an April Fools joke to me. A Nuvi that's plugged into the cigarette lighter socket can't control the steering and gas/break pedals.

Now having several beers so I can try out the DUI Mode. Notice that the DUI mode won't work correctly unless driver is over the legal limit.

A Nuvi that's plugged into the cigarette lighter socket can control the steering and gas/break pedals.

It the same method Toyota uses, It's done with the wireless acceleration from the computer. All newer cars have the ability to be remote steered, it just hasn't been used as of yet. Garmin has exploited the rack and pinon remote sensors and uses them for auto pilot steering.
As far as the breaks go, I really don't understand the way they work. May be we can get some one else to chime in on them.

Use the FM transmitter.

hahaha...

Does it also work if you're doing things in the back seat that you shouldn't be doing..!!?

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Texting, putting on makeup, shaving, eating your fast-food, shaving - um - "down there" (reference http://www.poi-factory.com/node/28164) etc., etc., etc.

That is almost as good as Homer Simpson using a GPS:

http://gpstracklog.com/2010/03/homer-simpson-and-gps.html

DUI... short for "Driving under the influence"
Yep sounds like April fools

That became obvious in the first sentence of the third paragraph.

For sure it's a joke. However, has anyone ever seen those geeks at one university or someplace, they were actually driving their car remotely with their iPhone. The key word, THEY were driving it, not the car. It'll be nice if we had KITT to drive our cars. I still don't know how good Lexus does with their auto parking.

Here is the Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDwKT564Kk

does it come with an alarm to wake u when u arrive

When DUI mode is activated the speech is slurred and it tells the driver how much it loves them.

I'll take two!

I am retired and tend to forget what day and month it is so I have an excuse!!

LOL i actuallyy fell for that one LOL NOT !!!

Hey on a really quick serious note, does anyone know when the 2011 map update is going to be released?

Meh

Garmin says by the end of April. No specific date though.

Thanks i have a new unit in my g/f's car and i know i have my 60 days to get a free map update so her sixty days expires on May 3rd so im just hoping to get the very last update before it expires

the maps are out for the garmin nuvi just go to file share.com and you will find them

Wow! can't wait for it. WOW!

Dang, I cannot find any reference to the DUI mode on Garmin.com now. I must have been DUI and missed it on April 1. Probably a one day offering. Drat!

Definately a good one! Loved it!

No... you just have to do the screen widening work first.

I'm holding off until the 2012 version.

Rumors are that it will have a crack cocaine/ meth mode.

Ron

If I could get the Australian English Karen voice I use to slur her speech when she tells me what to do, I'd buy a whole pallet of GPS's.

Neither can Toyota owners.

If "The Simpsons" are to be believed, truckers have had this capability for a long time now!

Once it's on auto-pilot it means my wife and I can.. never mind!!

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