Re: speaking of gps

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910281535220.6421-100000@clone.spore.org> c a l i b a n writes:

> 	anyone know what the gps stuff on the 2k's does?

John Robinson's S4 has it.  It's a little cumbersome to use, but very
effective once you've mastered it.

Basically, the car knows where it is to a resolution of perhaps fifty
feet - sometimes better.  You ask it to go somewhere, and it works out
a route.

Here's the tricky bit.  It has a _strong_ preference, in the UK, for
motorways.  Now - the reason most of us buy Audi's performance quattros
is to be able to make rapid progress on _all_ types of road.  John had
to go to Manchester recently, and the car produced a motorway-only route.

Locals here will know (John lives just south of Nottingham) that this
wasn't an ideal solution.  But he took it just to see.  On the way back,
he came down the (non-motorway) A50 - one of the better of England's
new roads.  Two days later, he had to go to Manchester again and checked
out what the car thought.  It instantly plotted a route using - the A50.

So it learns.  It also has some other intriguing habits.  The driveway
into the car park at the Area E meeting is long enough for the GPS to
realise he isn't on a road any more - just as he passes the back of
the pub a voice says: "Dead end.  Turn round."

You're going to have endless fun with it.  It's very neat in many ways.

--
 Phil Payne
 UK Audi quattro Owners Club
 Phone: 07785 302803   Fax: 0870 0883933