User's Manual

Viewing the traffic flow
Traffic Information is displayed on a screen in
the form of a list. This allows you to check how
many traffic incidents have occurred, their lo-
cation and their distance from your current po-
sition.
Although the MSN Direct service regularly up-
dates traffic information, the information pro-
vided may not necessarily correspond to actual
traffic conditions. Please refer to Notice about
MSN Direct™ on page 66.
1 Touch [Destination] on the “Top Menu”,
and then touch [MSN Direct].
2 Touch [Traffic Flow].
A list with traffic event information that has
been received is shown.
Places (street names) where incidents have
occurred are displayed on the list.
3 Select an incident you want to view in
detail.
The details of the selected incident are dis-
played.
p Touching an incident you want to see allows
you to view the detailed information of the
incident. If the information cannot be dis-
played on one screen, touch
or to view
the remaining information.
# Touch [Sort].
You can sort the traffic information.
Each time you touch the key changes that set-
ting.
!
:
You can sort the traffic information by dis-
tance from your current position.
For the list displayed when you touch [Traf-
fic List], the list will be sorted according to
the linear distance from the vehicle position
to the traffic information.
For the list displayed when you touch [Traf-
fic On Route], the list will be sorted accord-
ing to the distance from the vehicle position
to the traffic information.
!
:
You can sort the traffic information in alpha-
betical order.
!
:
You can sort the traffic information accord-
ing to the incident.
The list will be sorted in the order of closed/
blocked roads, traffic congestion, acci-
dents, road works and others.
Current order is displayed on the upper right of
the screen.
# Touch [Refresh].
When new traffic information is received, current
information is changed or old information has
been removed, the list is updated to reflect the
new situation.
# Touch
.
The traffic event information displayed on the
map is as follows.
Traffic flow icon and line
! Red: average speed in this area is slower
than 15mph (24 km/h)
! Yellow: average speed in this area is be-
tween 15 mph to 45mph (24 km/h to 72 km/
h)
! Green: average speed in this area is faster
than 45 mph (72 km/h) (An icon without a
line will be displayed)
Browsing information on MSN Direct
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