"traffic Master"

[Norlander]

If the wretched thing hiding behind the glovebox with its repetitive :angry: "subscribe" nag-messages <_< was to be chucked out, could anything else such as a satnav fit in its place, use the car's multifunction screen location (would it mean fitting a full-colour different screen off a scrapped C5, but would that then also still give car, time etc. readouts like the present display does?) and the presently TM control button that's over to the right of the steering column?

Or is the best outcome that's viable be just to have got shot of the stazi-tracker nag box, which would itself be an ok result anyway?

[ukwide]

Norlander,

 

Not sure what you mean, however, Traffic Master uses two systems,as follows:

 

1. A small standalone blue screen similar to any shop bought satnav, which is wired into your car electrical system, but it is obviously a standalone system.

 

2. A Traffic Master button marked TM, which is voice direction only, you speask to an operator tell them where you want to go and TM tells you the route giving turn by turn directions along the way.

 

TM does not use any of the screens fitted to your car by citroen (well not unless they've changed it in the last 12 months?

 

I had TM + Screen in my car and to be honest it was amazing and the best system I have ever used, at £109 per year with Speed camera alert etc I thought it was a bargain, but then I was doing 35k plus miles per year.

[Norlander]

Ah, sorted out in my mind now .... that ghastly robo-fem happened to be numerically nagging just as numbers showed up on the car's own displays, which gave an impression that the two things were synched.

All else became clouded in red mist thanks to having read this....

From Traffic Master's own website....

Examples of bespoke projects that Trafficmaster has successfully implemented and managed include:

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* Department for Transport - an end to end demonstration project of road pricing in the UK

and....

http://boards.fool.co.uk/road-pricing-back-on-the-agenda-11926328.aspx?sort=postdate

 

No doubt in due course the presently ruling NeoCon franchise will proceed in the same direction as the previous franchisees .... but afaicr, even the "1984" scenario by Orwell didn't predict the surveilled putting themselves under tracking by subscription!

[Randombloke]

Ah, sorted out in my mind now .... that ghastly robo-fem happened to be numerically nagging just as numbers showed up on the car's own displays, which gave an impression that the two things were synched.

 

 

If you don't like Trafficmaster then turn the volume down to minimum - you won't be able to hear it.

 

Set it to manual mode so it won't bleat except to ask for money.

 

If you remove it be careful as it drives relays that flip the car speakers over from radio to TM.

 

HTH.