F10 2010 RTTI is it possible to upgrade?

[Welshbeef]

Anyone know if this is possible and if so what sort of £ does it cost?

Appears I only have TMC plus from the little research I've made its a late 2011/early 2012 it became standard.

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Jon1967x said:

If it is I'm sure its part of the connected drive thing and therefore £120 a year subscription - it's not worth that in my book

The thing is the connected drive is subscribed to - have been browsing new sports (trying to get emails) usig local WiKi but RTTI is not there.

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Jon1967x said:

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. The only time I see rtti is when I've a route in the car and it's guiding me.

In the top right corner of the screen it shows TMC, also in the map it will show arrows indicating if traffic is heavy - from the pics I can see online RTTI colours congestion in black amber or red depending and then offers the driver an alternate route I do not have that as an option (unless I cannot find it).

[Welshbeef]

Could someone post up a pic of a working RTTI so i can see if there is any difference - much appreciated.

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ManiacGT said:

Tmc and rtti are completely different.

Tmc is traffic data over radio and it's very slow to update. Accuracy therefore can be hours old.
Rtti is sent over the cars 3G connection and is part of the connected drive service. It's information is updated very quickly from data provided by the likes of traffic master and google.

As for whether it requires different hardware I'm not sure.

Thing is hardware its a PC so it certainly should be able to update - I've a feeling BMW will charge an arm and a leg for it.

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ManiacGT said:

Clarity shouldn't be required but some pick spots off anything. RTTI is the same as TMC in that they're both intended to do a similar thing, but they're as different as a train and a bus.

As for a computer being upgraded, you can't use that analogy here. They don't fit a PC World computer into it, the design is bespoke. For example, my car is 2009, it has the pre combox iDrive. If I want bluetooth audio, I have to upgrade the hardware, not just a bit of software or coding. Its my guess (and yes a guess) that new features through the years will take the same approach.

Yep I'm assuming that it is possible BUT would be uneconomical to do so- was hoping to find that wasn't the case

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Wills2 said:

Welshbeef said:

Could someone post up a pic of a working RTTI so i can see if there is any difference - much appreciated.

RTTI

Thanks - I certainly do not have that functionality.