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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Is the voice command not the driver? Can you get in the car at Johnson City and say take me to Atlanta and expect to get there without any intervention?
Why would it take three years to learn to use it if it didn't need a driver? Just get in and say Home James or Office James.
Still it must be nice for you to have something like that vaguely close to working on it's own. Lucky guy 
Helen |
I say "Find NNN 4th Av City State" and the car does it all: stop signs, turns, detours, etc. However, if the satellite is down, it is polite enough to say, "We are lost." That already happened several times and I just park for 5 to 15 minutes and hope. I can also say, "Find Favorites," and then keep saying "Page Down" until I see one I want. Then I just say the number.
To go home, I just say, "Find Home." I can then relax and read a Kindle eBook. However, it does have a steering wheel in case there is no satellite for a long time. I do keep my hands near the wheel to hold if police are nearby. In my state a special permit is required (similar to those for the handicapped). If I ever lost the satellite for more than 60 minutes, I'd have to call for Roadside Assistance since I'd have no idea where I was or how to get home.
If passengers want to talk, I must turn off Voice Recognition so it doesn't hear someone say, "stop," by accident. That happened once and the car moved into the side lane and actually parked on a highway.
The best Voice Command is, "Play Song AAAA" and it actually finds that particular song on my USB drive and plays it. I believe there are over 200 Voice Commands so it does take a few weeks of training to master them and when and how to use them. It communicates through my cell phone and receives and makes calls. However, I never answer calls while the car is in motion since I still want to be alert in case of problems. I call back folks when the car is stopped.
When it is backing out of a space in a parking lot, it shows a rear camera view on my dashboard. If a pedestrian is approaching even 4 cars away, it stops and beeps and flickers a light on the camera and patiently waits for the pedestrian to clear my car and walk 4 cars in the opposite direction. If someone tailgates me, it beeps loudly, flashes red lights at the offender and gradually slows my car forcing the tailgater to a stop.
The car measures miles to empty and, when a setting is reached (I have it set for 100 miles), it drives to the nearest gas station with the lowest price in the area. If I say "Tune BBC or CNN", it actually tunes to those stations turning off the USB songs. If I say, "Change Source USB," it turns back the music. The dashboard displays song name, artist, composer, album and an album picture. Some songs do not display all the information for some reason even though all were purchased from Amazon.