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Driver alerts Drivesmart units
newbieInNY
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Looking into new Garmin. I am specifically interested in the DriveSmart 65 but like many posters, the alerts are a feature I could do without. I think I could live with the banners, but the audio alerts would be bothersome. The owners manual and many posts say SOME alerts can be disabled, can anyone list which ones can be disable, and which can't.
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Having dropped and broken the screen on that one, we have now upgraded to a 65 with Alexa and large screen. Looking forward to using it in the USA in May but not looking forward to those school warnings!
Is there any way of silencing these warnings?
I also have to stress that I normally don't use the smartphone link. Recently I did see some annoying behavior while using smartlink, but it wasn't the alerts. It was instead a parking notice. I only got it once, and to be honest it was over and done with so quick, I don't remember the specifics.
Perhaps I haven't gotten the truly annoying alerts, but I have gotten the school zone, speed reduction, RR crossing and the seemingly ambiguous notification about a dangerous curve than many times you wonder why it's any more dangerous than another that doesn't give an alert.
In fact, I actually appreciate the speed reduction alerts, I drive through Louisiana quite a bit, and their local PD's are pretty intolerant of highway traffic that doesn't slow as they pass by their town. So the alerts remind me prior to getting a visual on the "reduced speed ahead" sign.
So at least a person looking through here for pre-purchase information can now see that not everyone is bothered by such. After all, it's not a very loud ding. And for the alerts I get it's only one ding and no obstruction in the map of driving information other than briefly hiding the next turn instruction.
What really surprised me though was that Voice Command now had a voice that I never recall hearing in the two years I had this DS61 lmts. That I found annoying as I had to wait till it shut up before I could make my next command. I searched everywhere in the settings but couldn't find a way to disable it. Just before posting this I thought to look in the Apps section and found an app called voice command and allows you to disable the instructions.