Does it have a "Most Use of Freeways " feature ?
352014
Yes. Fastest, shortest distance, and avoid freeways also...if I remember correctly.
352015
Yes, it does. It has about four ways to choose, one of them is "fastest" which uses main highways.
209662
I am not aware of this type of feature and would be surprised if it did. I am not a trucker, so your fellow truckers would be more apt to know this.
2272330
Yes, it does have traffic updates. However it is difficult to determine the accuracy of those traffic reports, because conditions are constantly changing, so by the time you arrive at the area that had an earlier-displayed slowdown, you'll never know if things cleared up or got worse moments before you arrived at the location. After driving ~6000 miles on a northeastern road trip last summer (areas with lots of traffic), my impression is that the traffic updates were largely accurate and helpful. Oh, by the way, we didn't get traffic capabilities that require extra equipment or subscriptions. We just got the basic model.
693366
NO-------------------------------------this unit does not have truck routes...Not those other funky answers......
956058
Don't rely on this feature. It thinks my truck is somewhere on the interstate about 10 miles from home--while my truck is sitting safely in my driveway. I've even see it think my truck was at a place that I didn't even drive by.
1195974
The size of this device is excellent, the split screen is also very good but I never used the traffic option so I cannot tell you if is good or not.
1985880
It visually recommends a lane or lanes to be in but it doesnt announce what lane to be in like google maps
497501
It has a couple of diffrent functions on it Truck is one of them. Car, and walking are the other 2. The truck function is real good on it routes you around low bridges or if you go off its route by making a wrong turn it will let you know if there is a low bridge ahead. I've been in New York City, Baltimore, and a few of the pain in the butt cities in the east and it never screwed me. It is the one that I would by agine out of the truck specific ones, and I have had it since it came out 3 years ago and never had a problem with it. I Drive a 53'refer.
332297
Yes it does. I didn't know it had this feature and was pleasantly surprised to automatically get notices of traffic delays and "faster route" displays on the Garmin. I really like the Garmin, but it doesn't give much audible notice of upcoming left and right turns until it is too late to safely make lane changes.
1495686
The ads are how they are able to offer free lifetime traffic and only show up if you are using the FM traffic receiver. The ads are not too obtrusive. I tested the traffic feature in Southern California for a couple of weeks, but decided that it wasn't useful enough. I'd be interested if others have found it useful.
1508248
There's another traffic receiver other than MSN you can get if you want that feature.I bought a 855 and I can always but the traffic receiver later if I want.
185767
Yes. Very detailed. And does turn by turn with audible prompts. Another neat feature is round trip generation, tell it how far you want to ride and it comes up with 2 or 3 possible routes for you
1612037
I have mine set on "City" because that is where I do most of my driving. If I leave town, I set it on "Hwy".Decide where you do the most driving and leave it set there. It should work fine...mine does.
1043568
I have the Australian version and it has maps of both cities and the road system all across Australia. I can navigate anywhere outside cities using it just like within the USA.
803505
No, but it gives choices of routes, and you can program it to avoid certain roads and road types (such as no toll roads), fastest route, shortest route. I haven't looked at the route choices yet. I have not had an issue with either of my Garmin GPS units not getting me to my destination; so I usually just let it take me, unless I decide as I'm driving to change roads, then it just re-routes based on the road I am currently on. You could also plot a via point to force it to go a certain way, which I have done with my older unit.
255374
From my experience, you can't define the route. The i5 will choose it's own route, which isn't always the most efficient IMO. I know the city of San Francisco better than the i5. But then again, I bought the i5 so that I wouldn't get lost in another town. In a new town, I wouldn't know if the route was efficient or not.
214020
Yes it does but after you slow down going through a small town and hit resume it keeps telling you that you're exceeding the speed limit. I liked it at first as it got to through the twin cities without getting me lost but it cannot be updated and the speed reading isn't always right.