Quick Start Guide
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Other Navigation Features
The Prodigy ONE Navigation software has several other interesting features.
Smart Zoom
Smart Zoom provides a close up viewpoint to allow better view of the mapping screen in certain instances.
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While following a route you have entered -
When approaching a turn, it will zoom in and raise
the view angle to let you easily recognize your maneuver at the next junction. If the next turn is at a
distance, it will zoom out and lower the view angle to be flat so you can see the road in front of you.
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While driving without an active route -
Smart Zoom will zoom in if you drive slowly and zoom out
when you drive at high speed.
Color Themes for Day/Night
Prodigy ONE Navigation software offers different daytime and night color profiles for both the map and the
menu screens. It can also switch automatically between the daytime and the night profiles based on the current
time and GPS position a few minutes before sunrise, when the sky has already turned bright, and a few minutes
after sunset, before it becomes dark.
• Daytime color themes are similar to paper road maps, and the menus are bright and easy to read.
• Night time color themes use dark colors for large objects to keep the average brightness of the screen
low for easier visual recognition and to reduce driver distraction when looking at the screen then back
at the road.
Route Planning Preferences
Prodigy ONE Navigation software offers four distinct preset route preference profiles.
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Fast
- Gives a quick route if you can travel at or near the speed limit on all roads. Usually the best
selection for fast and normal cars.
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Short
- Gives a route that has the smallest total distance of all possible routes. It can be practical for
slow vehicles.
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Green
- Gives a quick, but fuel efficient route based on the fuel consumption data given in Route
settings. Travel cost and CO
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emission calculations that are displayed are estimations only. They
cannot take elevations, curves and traffic conditions into account.
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Easiest
- Results in a route with fewer turns and no difficult maneuvers. With this option, you can make
your software to take, for example, the freeway instead of a series of smaller roads or streets.
Speed Limit Warnings
Maps may contain information about the speed limits of the road segments. The software is able to warn you if
you exceed the current limit. This information may not be available for your region or may not be fully correct for
all roads in the map depending on circumstances that may have recently changed (such as new construction)
or due to mapping data accuracy. Speed warning can be fine-tuned in Sound and Warning settings.
You can set the relative speed above which the application initiates the warning. There are two ways in which
you can be alerted:
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Audio Warning
- You receive a verbal warning when you exceed the speed limit with the given
percentage.
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Visual Warning
- The current speed limit is shown on the map as a number with a red circle when you
exceed it and is otherwise hidden when speed is under the limit. You can also choose to see the speed
limit sign on the map all the time which is useful when you are unaware of the speed limits.
Please visit the Directus web site for additional resources on the complete navigation user’s guide, including
Advanced Settings and Preferences.
