CoPilot providing evidence that you were speeding.
Discussion
Yesterday I replaced my phone and iPac with an Orbit XDA. It came with Co-pilot sat nav in the bundle.
There is a Co-pilot feature called ‘Track Playback’ that worries me. It automatically saves completed trips and allows you to replay them. You can delete them from the advanced screen of the Co-pilot Central application on the PC.
Some people have been convicted on the basis of their own bullet camera evidence, when seized by the Police. I don’t want the Sat Nav being used as potential evidence that I was speeding.
I can’t seem to turn the feature off so it doesn’t record at all. My objection is that when I replay a trip, it also shows what speed the car was doing at any given point in the trip. Obviously if it shows that you were over the speed limit at any point on the trip then it could prove embarrassing.
Does anyone know if this feature can be turned off and how to do it?
There is a Co-pilot feature called ‘Track Playback’ that worries me. It automatically saves completed trips and allows you to replay them. You can delete them from the advanced screen of the Co-pilot Central application on the PC.
Some people have been convicted on the basis of their own bullet camera evidence, when seized by the Police. I don’t want the Sat Nav being used as potential evidence that I was speeding.
I can’t seem to turn the feature off so it doesn’t record at all. My objection is that when I replay a trip, it also shows what speed the car was doing at any given point in the trip. Obviously if it shows that you were over the speed limit at any point on the trip then it could prove embarrassing.
Does anyone know if this feature can be turned off and how to do it?
Edited by Uncle Fester on Monday 26th May 08:37
DIW35 said:
Big Brother is alive and well, and is attached to a windscreen near you! 
Which is more than the scamera warnings are 
Apart from ticking the boxes for display 'safety camera's' and warn when near 'safety camera's what do I need to do?
So far, it has failed to either display, or warn when I am near any scamera. Yet all the scamera's I have driven past have been there for years.
Carphone Warehouse assured me that the scamera database was included.
And is there any way to make it get the distance to exit right?
For example, traveling along the motorway. There is a sliproad exit with a roundabout at the end.
The voice anounces the distance to the turn. But the distance it gives is the distance to the the entrance to the roundabout.
This can mean it doesn't warn you until AFTER the entrance to the sliproad has been passed if the sliproad is a long one.
There are options of when to speak instructions and I have told it to use all of them, to no avail.
Although it says that Speed cam databases are included it seems you do have to download them - go here:
http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/cameras.asp
Follow those instructions and you should be sorted
As far as distance to roundabouts and so on, I find that it tells me distance to exit, and then distance to roundabout. Try extending the "distance to waypoint" value to give you more notice. If there is a problem it'll be down to the basemaps which will affect other devices too, so I think it must be a setting on yours. Certainly on my 5 year old Garmin GPS V it did the exact thing - told me about the exit, and then the roundabout.
As far as logging your speed - it works on the basis of how long it takes you to get from one point to another. There is an issue of accuracy at each point, which may or may not be recorded. OK, if it says you're doing 90 for 20 minutes it might be difficult to argue, but the seed of doubt is there. I'm surprised it can't be turned off.
Wouldn't be hard to use some sort of scheduling programme to empty the "tracks" directory once an hour or something...
http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/cameras.asp
Follow those instructions and you should be sorted
As far as distance to roundabouts and so on, I find that it tells me distance to exit, and then distance to roundabout. Try extending the "distance to waypoint" value to give you more notice. If there is a problem it'll be down to the basemaps which will affect other devices too, so I think it must be a setting on yours. Certainly on my 5 year old Garmin GPS V it did the exact thing - told me about the exit, and then the roundabout.
As far as logging your speed - it works on the basis of how long it takes you to get from one point to another. There is an issue of accuracy at each point, which may or may not be recorded. OK, if it says you're doing 90 for 20 minutes it might be difficult to argue, but the seed of doubt is there. I'm surprised it can't be turned off.
Wouldn't be hard to use some sort of scheduling programme to empty the "tracks" directory once an hour or something...
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