Back to basics of navigation.While its competitors are struggling to offer even more functionality on their GPS systems, such as reading photos or MP3, TomTom wants to concentrate on the journey times for motorists.Now assume that the number one European navigation portable: "The data reflect cartographers average speeds estimated but not the actual speeds," says Benoit Simeray, vice president of sales at Southern Europe Following a normal routing displayed on 30 minutes by a device may eventually take much longer.
Parade TomTom, a process called "house IQ Roads."To develop, the manufacturer has analyzed two years behaviors of its users by sharing their journey times, saved automatically when they connect to the site of TomTom.For example, 100 billion speeds measures have been saved, as if each European portion of the road had been flown 1000 times.What establish a database serious.Present on the new GPS of the mark (930 Go, Go 730, sold from 399 euros), IQ allows Roads, according to its manufacturer, saves time.Close to roll over miles to circumvent red lights or roundabouts, synonymous with downturns."It does not purport to systematically reduced journey times, but a reliable journey times," says Benoit Simeray.
Problem, if IQ Roads speeds differentiates between real assumed the weeks and weekends, the process of exonerating the time the trip is done.This, on the axes very borrowed at rush hour, is likely to frustrate motorists.