voice-changing safety feature
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 12:52pm
  13 years
|
Saw this on Kim Komandos web site.
"Swedish ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors has developed a Slow Down GPS voice navigation app. The app works just like the GPS system you have in your car, or on your smartphone. The big difference is that when you're driving near a school or daycare center, the GPS voice goes from the regular adult telling you to make a left or a right, to the voice of a child. The GPS has school locations programmed into it."
Does Garmin have a child voice we could use? It would raise your awareness when around schools.
I don't
I don't know if Garmin has a childs voice or not but if your looking for it only to speak "kid" in a school zone or daycare area I don't think it will matter if they do or not. AFAIK you can set a voice in your Garmin GPS but the VOICE isn't going to change in any particular area. It will only change when you go into Settings and change it.
Some Nuvi models now announce "school zones" with a proximity alert and a message across the top of the map screen. This data is written into the map data and doesn't affect the voice being used.
Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.
Related Topic To School Zones
In Illinois, the law was changed to be hands free phone usage while driving. This took effect on January 1st, 2014.
That extends to texting, emailing, talking, and even GPS usage that is on a device not built into the vehicle. This makes the assumption that in-vehicle GPS systems disable interaction while in motion.
To go even further, it is illegal to even be on the phone in a school zone, or construction zone; not just hands free. So - in Illinois anyway, there could be a good usage of an alert stating something like, "school zone ahead, hang up", or something like that. Not like anyone would use it, but they should.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled forum - already in progress . . .