Pioneer AVIC-HD3-II - Manual (Page 63)

Setting an alternative route to
avoid traffic jams
The navigation system checks whether or not
there is the traffic information on your route at
regular time intervals. If the navigation system
detects any traffic jams on your current route,
the system tries to find a better route in the
background.
p The following types of traffic incidents on
the route will be checked: slow, queuing
and stationary traffic, and closed/blocked
roads.
Checking for traffic jams automatically
If there is information about traffic jam on
your current route and if an alternative route
can be found, the navigation system will re-
commend a new alternative route automati-
cally. In such a case, the following screen will
appear.
p There is no action if the system cannot find
any traffic jam information on your route or
the system cannot find an alternative.
Difference in distance and travel time be-
tween the existing route and new route.
Distance from the current position of your ve-
hicle to the point of entry into the 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.
p When no selection is made, the screen re-
turns to previous screen.
Checking traffic information manually
Touching the notification icon on the map
screen allows you to check traffic information
on your route while icon is displayed. The noti-
fication icon is only displayed on the naviga-
tion map screen if there is any traffic
information on your route.
p The notification icon will not be available
when your vehicle deviate from the route.
1 Set [Show Traffic Incident] to [View].
= For details, refer to Setting the Item on the
Map Screen on page 42
2 Press MAP button to display the current
location.
The icon appears when the system acquires
traffic information on the current route.
3 Touch the icon while the icon is dis-
played.
Notification icon
The displayed icon indicates the type of the
traffic information.
4 Touch [Diversion] to search for an alter-
native route.
p [Diversion] will be enable only when the
system can find
“traffic jam”.
After touching [ Diversion], the route is recal-
culated taking all traffic jams on your current
route into account.
Using Traffic Information
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Chapter
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Using
Traffic
Information