Dash Diary: Going to the Chapel
June 30th, 2008 by Troy Dreier
Editor’s Note: One of the main features of the Dash Express GPS navigator, which we reviewed in March, is that it is the first plug-in navigator with an always-on cellular connection to the Internet. This lets you conduct live Yahoo searches for destinations, but, more importantly, it lets you receive live traffic data from other Dash-using drivers. Here is a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH9f2zUXct0) showing how it works.
Theoretically, the Dash will become more useful as more people buy the device, and their driving data is added to the collective. To see if the service is actually improving, we gave one to our resident GPS expert, Troy Dreier, to test out over a number of weeks. This is his first entry.
Yeah, I love using the Dash Express and yeah, I think it’s the future of GPS navigation—but man, I wish it would overcome its quirks soon.
I took the Dash with me during a recent weekend as I drove to a wedding on Long Island. The Dash proved to be a real help, twice warning me that traffic conditions had changed on my route and offering to re-route me. But other times, the Dash’s quirks made me wish that the company would hurry up and improve the software.
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