06-03-2015, 06:02 PM
Hi all,
As I'm getting out and about a bit more these days, and other people can't seem to manage to keep their cars the right way up and heading in the right direction, I'm getting fed up with being stuck accident traffic...really don't understand it, seems to happen nearly every day on the A12 or A14 when I'm on them!
Now this obviously isn't good for MPG but more importantly it's really not helping my phobia of getting stuck in accident traffic. 
What's supposed to happen is I as go out more I realise that I'm worrying about something that doesn't happen often...but as said above, it does happen all the damn time lol. 
My current sat nav is 6 years old now, and getting a bit slow/crashing occasionally/taking ages to work out its start location so I was looking into a newer one, not sure if brand new or used yet, but rather than spend £40 on new maps for mine might as well buy another lol. Now the current 'One' I have has 'IQ routes' but this is based on old events and not 'live', but I've seen the later TomToms come with this live traffic system that uses mobile internet to know the state of the traffic every 3 minutes. Now obviously it's not failsafe, but it's gotta work a lot better than just the IQ routes. I don't have a data-plan on my telephone so would need one with a built in SIM card.
I was wondering if anyone had a TomTom with this system and what you think of it?
Cheers
Tom
As I'm getting out and about a bit more these days, and other people can't seem to manage to keep their cars the right way up and heading in the right direction, I'm getting fed up with being stuck accident traffic...really don't understand it, seems to happen nearly every day on the A12 or A14 when I'm on them!
Now this obviously isn't good for MPG but more importantly it's really not helping my phobia of getting stuck in accident traffic. What's supposed to happen is I as go out more I realise that I'm worrying about something that doesn't happen often...but as said above, it does happen all the damn time lol. My current sat nav is 6 years old now, and getting a bit slow/crashing occasionally/taking ages to work out its start location so I was looking into a newer one, not sure if brand new or used yet, but rather than spend £40 on new maps for mine might as well buy another lol. Now the current 'One' I have has 'IQ routes' but this is based on old events and not 'live', but I've seen the later TomToms come with this live traffic system that uses mobile internet to know the state of the traffic every 3 minutes. Now obviously it's not failsafe, but it's gotta work a lot better than just the IQ routes. I don't have a data-plan on my telephone so would need one with a built in SIM card.
I was wondering if anyone had a TomTom with this system and what you think of it?
Cheers
Tom