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We've been ranting about this internet-connected Dash Express GPS for months. Over the past week, we were given the opportunity to test it out for ourselves on both coasts, over a thousand miles, through intense city driving in SF and NY and road trips into the wilds. It's the real deal, delivering out of the box the most impressive real time traffic system we've ever seen, one that only will get better as each Dash user hit the road creating a swarm network of traffic avoiding drivers. Here's why:
Having the connectivity of both GPRS and Wi-Fi makes it instantly more useful than many products with static points-of-interest catalogs, no matter how many million are boasted. And the same networking that goes to the net to get data can be used in reverse: sending addresses and search criteria to the device from any computer takes a few seconds and no wires.
But it's not a clean victory for Dash—for all of the steps forward, the upstart misses some elements essential to any portable navigation device. Meanwhile, Garmin, Magellan and TomTom are racing with their own connected and crowd-sourced strategies. This is the opening salvo of what will eventually be a tough, possibly deadly battle. So far, however, Dash is in great shape.
What Dash Got
There are four compelling aspects to the Dash Express which are not found, as such, in other portable navigators on the market.
• Live real-time traffic - It's the biggest and most powerful of the four keys, mainly because of how badly GPS traffic reporting has sucked in the past. Dash builds a teamwork system not unlike the original Napster—you got data I want, I got data you want, and that central server will make sure the sharing happens in a fast and orderly manner. As you drive, you not only help others out, but you add useful data to the historical record, so that the plan for your own commute or Friday getaway could grow smarter. As we've said before, once each metro area is seeded with a few hundred Dash units, the traffic reporting becomes exponentially better. The funny thing is, what we've already seen, with just a handful of units on the road, was already better than anything to date thanks to the historical data which runs in 15 minute increments, and therefore knows the difference between weekends and rush hour. If you're wondering who is working on the traffic modeling, it's a couple of eggheaded PhDs in Traffic.
• Live search - Most navis have search features, but they only query a POI database of an average of 5 million or so. Dash only has 1 Million built-in points of interest, but its better 99% of the time. That's because it uses its GPRS cellular connection to ping Yahoo Local search for stuff, delivering better information in the exact same amount of time. You can save search terms you like as favorites, alongside addresses and, yes, standard POI categories. Oh, Yahoo local searches are returned by relevance, not sorted by proximity, but most things can be resorted and gas can even be resorted by price.
• MyDash web interface including Send2Car, GeoRSS and other features - With a quick browser plug-in, you can highlight any address and right-click, selecting the option "Send To Car." You can even highlight name and address, but for now you need to leave off the phone number. Within a second or two, the address pops up on the Dash, which could be at your side, or miles away. Blam found that entering addresses on the web interface was actually more effective than typing them on the Express, since the server can do a better job of fuzzy-matching the data you type. There are plug-ins to allow you to send any text to the Dash unit by right clicking text and selecting "Send to Car."
In MyDash, you can browse "saved searches" for dynamically updating data—a POI-like request ("CVS" or "Sushi") gives you a Yahoo Local search criteria that you can send to the Express. But you can also copy GeoRSS and KML feed URLs from around the net at sites like Yelp.com and Chowhound, containing more exotic and time-dependent stuff—"Nationwide Airport Delays" and "California Surf Report." For the most part, everything we tried worked, save a Craigslist RSS of Seattle real estate. (But GeoRSS feeds are kind of tricky to find in the wild.)
• Over-the-air updates - The Express uses any open Wi-Fi network it can to pull chunks of update down as you drive around. You can teach it your SSIDs and passwords for best Wi-Fi, but it's not necessary. Dash will deliver a few different kinds of update that we'll cover below; the important thing is to think about the last time you updated your Garmin or TomTom. Your answer is most likely "never." If you have, you probably paid a lot to do it. Dash of courses charges $10 to $13 per month subscription, but promises a constantly evolving platform in return.
-Traffic data will be updated monthly, using historical data from Dash drivers. That means that the first one will be a good 'un, as the first crop of users starts putting on the mileage.
-Big map updates will come every six months or so, about the same time Tele Atlas will release to other vendors.
-The first major software updates with bug fixes and new features (see below) will come this summer, and then every three months or so.
-MyDash servers can be updated on a weekly basis, so new web features could be appearing all the time—not that they will.
Here's a video that explains it all very well, even if it does paint it rosier than we found in real life. (That's the part we get into next.)
The Test
For our testing, Brian drove from SF to Tahoe and back with hours of city driving; I did a roundtrip from New York up to Boston. When you enter a destination, Dash looks at mileage, road speed and known traffic in planning the trip, devising up to three possible routes. In my case, it never did more than two suggested routes, and usually the first was obviously the best, but it was reassuring that it had backups in mind.
Traffic currently works with a combination of historic data and real-time data. A solid red, orange, yellow or green line means that either a Dash driver is currently on that road, or the historic data has proven so accurate it's as good as realtime fact. Broken lines, commonly seen in this pre-launch period, show shakier historic data, or data from supplier Inrix that Dash hasn't verified independently. Inrix doesn't provde data for local roads, though, only highways. Any data on local roads comes from Dash alone.
Blam says:
Getting across town during rush hour is challenging even for locals. Using Dash and trusting its copious historical information about what side streets would be empty and which would be crowded, I managed to get across town to pick up a friend and back to my place to meet another darting through side streets I'd never even known of despite living in SF almost eight years. I can't stress how useful it is to have all this data, typically the kind you see on Google Maps on highways only, in my car. Even though Dash didn't reroute me automatically (It only opts to reroute you on drastic changes in arrival time), it was easy enough to follow the green lines and avoid the reds. Over time, even more local roads will be filled in with colored squigglies.
Dash uses traffic data to calculate the original route, so it doesn't automatically re-route you just because you hit a patch of congestion. Instead, it waits until your trip has been slowed by unplanned traffic. Any trip that lasts one hour or less gets delayed five unexpected minutes, and the Express offers to re-check the routes to see if there's a better way.
At one point just outside of Boston, when I had to drive through the same congested intersection several times, it was fun to see how the intersection's condition changed from moment to moment. (Sadly, I think I was the source of the data, which meant that I was unable to benefit from it. A crowdsource of one ain't much of a crowd... or source.)
Again, what's cool is that traffic data in the boonies will soon be available as historical or live meshed data as people drive through it. The Dash servers are constantly recording (without identifying) patterns.
To get a better idea of what real-time traffic looks like, check out this video of changes to New York City's traffic yesterday from about 3pm to just after 6pm. Pick a road and note how things get stickier as rush hour approaches.
Blam and I both suffered some routing issues, however. Mine was a traditional problem—a bad bit of map data (Tele Atlas) telling me to turn left when I couldn't, and haven't been able to do for years.
This is an unexpected usage model of the Dash. Sitting with it indoors, on Wi-Fi, as it updates the traffic model. When the traffic dies down, you can road trip. But Blam's situation was a bit stickier...
I'd been eyeing my Dash GPS on my desk all day, using it to tell when the drive from SF to Tahoe to drop below the 3.5 hour mark. At 11pm, on a Thursday before Easter, it was time to go. I loaded up the car, drove 20 minutes to the Bay Bridge, and jammed into some 0 MPH road flow. The Dash had reported yellow and red, earlier, but I didn't believe it so late at night (my fault). Right then, the other GPS I was using for a benchmark, a Garmin Nuvi, suddenly lit up with traffic data that the bridge was closed and rerouted me. Dash, for all its IP connectivity, had no clue, and continued to have no clue as the police redirected me to an exit. I later found out that road closure data wouldn't be on Dash until a later software update. And without that data, the Dash merely assumed I was exiting the highway of my own accord. The rest of the Dash users behind me would have no idea of the closing, either.
Competing With Other PNDs
Overall, as a portable navigation device, it was fairly responsive. I'd put its user interface somewhere between a Garmin (on the high side) and a TomTom (slightly lower down)—not counting the extra dimension of a web interface, of course. But while driving around, the Dash would occasionally turn bush-league, pulling amateur mistakes like being slow to recalculate after a missed turn.
Some of our other troubles pointed out other standard PND features that the Express is still missing:
• Scheduled road closures generally make it into any device with some kind of connectivity, be it FM or MSN Direct.
• Other navigators can string together several destinations as waypoints, where the Express has only a one-track mind.
• When heading into a turn, other navigators tend to zoom in to show key details—some newer TomToms and Navigons even specifically point out the lane issues. The Express has none of that.
• When the GPRS connectivity dies, Dash says the Express has just 1 million catalogued points-of-interest (others have 4-12m, and man, did we feel the lack of POI when the connection went down). The rest, of course, come from connectivity. But if you're out in the middle of nowhere with no service, you get the most essential stuff (gas, hotel, hospital, airport) but you don't get as many listings for luxury or tourist spots (Blam's favorite ski resort) as other PNDs.
• When redrawing maps and calculating routes, all that traffic data causes big lagtimes in zooming and setting course. This also caused delays in rerouting after missing a turn.
• Many GPS devices like Garmin's Nuvi line have language and currency translators for travellers, MP3 playback (lame), Bluetooth dialing and speakerphone, FM transmitters.
• This thing is big. And the mount looks like a crane arm. It is giant.
• UI not as clear as a Garmin's.
• The volume goes to 11, and yes, it is as loud as 11/10 should be, although sometimes overdriven a bit (crackly).
• The voice sounds like speak and spell had a daughter with Borat. I mean, a GPS shouldn't pronounce avenue, "oovenue."
Promises and Teases
Dash may be taking our laundry list of basic stuff to heart, but it's also hinting at plenty more crazy, unheard-of features in the updates to come:
• Automated correction of maps based on car flow that either wasn't there before, or has suddenly stopped - "We don't do any of that now, but that's something we think about a lot."
• Learning routes from drivers - People who know great shortcuts can eventually be traced (anonymously), and their routes can be incorporated into the Dash's own routing algorithms. "That's super important for the future."
• Real-time traffic data appearing on MyDash website, and not just on the Dash Express screen - "We're big believers in that, not just on the device but when they're sitting at their desk."
• Third-party services - There's an API for outside developers, and there was talk of some of these hitting at launch, but soon users will be able to pick through new apps and send them to their Express. "We are working with companies. We can't tell you who but our goal in this area is to make this as easy as humanly possible." Zillow, that real estate program that can detail the price of almost any house, was demoed in the past, but will not ship on the device. Driving up to a house and pricing it is amazing:
The Dash isn't perfect today, but it is great, and will be incredibly powerful in the future. Even with fewer than 20 production units in the SF bay area during testing, the traffic's historical and even Dash user updates were extremely useful. Traffic performance today is potent thanks to the historical data and its 15 minute granularity, and will undoubtedly get better by the day as more users sign on (live data is actually minute to minute.) The connectivity with Yahoo! works to give you unlimited POIs as long as your GPRS connection is there. And although the community of shared custom searches will thicken out later, programming your own is not going to be easy for your mom, ever. Ultimately, there's a certain lack of polish compared to the big Garmin and TomTom devices, in terms of UI and odd features. But the new lower price helps take away some of the pain, even when considering the subscription price of $10-$13 a month.
After a combined 1000+ miles of driving with Dash in a week, Blam and I agree. Geek to geek, we'd say go ahead and buy with confidence based on the IP features and powerful traffic features alone. And know that this thing will only get better in the future.
(Congrats, Dash, on building a great first product. But don't forget to keep improving this thing for your early adopters.)
Comments
Sounds pretty cool.
Hey everyone, this is Mark Williamson from Dash. I just wanted to let you know that I am more than happy to answer any questions you might have about the Dash Express, assuming you have any questions after this extensive review by Brian & Wilson. I will be checking back frequently between meetings and launch activities... so bear with me if I don't answer something immediately. I promise to get to it.
Mark
@dash_mark: What did it cost to buy Gizmodo?
I apologize.
Wow, you just saved yourself from the hammer. Psychic.
Mark, What does the Dash have as a theft prevention or recovery feature for when the dash does get stolen. Will it be able to locate the stolen dash via an online interface, perhaps to give police the location of the device when it is turned on, hence making it a jail bait of sorts? Around here theft of navigation systems and radar detectors is unbelievable, and even with serial numbers registered you can forget about getting it back, a way to see where it is would be a nice tool to go get your unit back from a pawn shop or anyone who might have decided to take it.
@SuperCollider: You know...with air you can't eat or buy stuff, neither pay college to your kids...people like you sometimes just piss me off really.
What's the deal with the shape of the device, I haven't been able to tell why the Dash team opted for the upside down L look... in some shots it looks like it's just square.. ??
@dash_mark: Mark! Product sounds off to a great start, and some great ideas! I have a question..... I own a small town car co. here in Seattle. I'm looking for something that has 2 way communication such as the Dash for my fleet. It would need to support 2 way texting for instance. A dispatcher back at the office can send an address to the closest available car waiting for its next fare, then that available car can accept or reject. Is this something that the Dash would be able to support?@dash_mark:
@h00ligan: probably to make room for the GPS receiver.
This looks very cool and all. But why would I buy this when I can buy a unit from a company that is established in the industry?
I'm all for gadgets, but GPS devices are all about the User Interface. TomTom and Garmin both seem to have a lot of the kinks worked out.
Since the retail price was just dropped to $399 - and the "Road Test" participants were offered $200 off of $599.00 - was there ultimately any advantage to Road Testing (other than getting to use a really cool GPS for free for a few months)
How is support for smaller cities? would there be any benefit there?
@DaveTyranham: Because it is vastly more powerful in traffic and connectivity, and has room to grow as a platform.
You might want to pass if you don't need anything but a basic navigator that is very polished. (Garmin.)
But these things are priced well now, and I like the idea of the platform growing.
A couple of questions for Mark (or anyone else who may know)
a) GPRS connectivity implies that you need some sort of data connection -- do you have to tether your phone to the unit / swap your sim card in and out?
b) When will it be available in Canada?
Mark, Does dash have any plans to sell a version that can be incorporated into a mobile pc? I have resisted a GPS purchase because traffic performance has not been acceptible (until now) and I don't want an external unit I have to constantly charge and hide from potential thieves.
I want to add a receiver/transmitter to my mobile pc (via usb or card) and install the software so its integrated into my dashboard.
@adam_h: I don't know about your question B, but the GPSR receiver is built into the unit. There's nothing more for you to do except call dash and ask them to activate it, and then pay the monthly fee.
It's so great to see this coming online; I've been waiting for it since I first heard of GPS. Many congratulations to you, Mark (and the whole Dash team).
From a non sat-nav user: How does Dash/any GPS handle high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in its routing? For instance in Washington DC/Northern Virginia some highways are all HOV at certain hours of the day, some streets go from two-way traffic to all one-way traffic for certain hours of the day, and some multi-lane streets have middles lanes that reverse direction for certain hours during the day.
So you say that POIs can only be sorted by immediate proximty, and not by proximity to route? Like when you're on a highway looking for gas and the next exit is several miles away, it justs lists stations that you can't get to. A feature I often use on my Garmin.
Can you tell it to detour, or more specifically roadblock a certain road? A feature my TomTom had and sorely missed on my garmin.
Can you disable auto turn on?
Does it have a real light sensor for brightness or just a next-to-useless sunrise/sunset dimming function?
Sadly the lack of multiple/inserting destinations, and bluetooth handsfree are deal killers.
Lets hope more of this stuff is added in software updates soon. I was determined to buy a dash over a year ago, but it just took too long. Broke down and replaced my aging tomtom with a garmin. But the dash has huge growing potential...perhaps they will still get my business later this year.
Looks like a cool product. It would be great if a motorcycle version could be released.
@dash_mark:
You, sir, just sold a customer. If Dash is willing to have someone monitor blogs to help answer questions about their product I am willing to buy from them. It is the little things that push me off the fence
I have been a dash tester for the last few months. I really like the product. But what I though was even better was how helpful and friendly the Dash team has been.
Worst form-factor ever.
Also a dash tester...love this unit. Ended up getting a Pioneer in-dash unit with garmin nav, but wish I could have gotten it with dash nav instead! @dash_mark, hope you guys are able to put this great gizmo in some head units soon!
@manolodf - I am happy to tell you we have a great theft deterant feature, which is our ability to remotely shut down any device that is stolen. We can't track the thief since we are unable to track the location on an individuals unit, but we can disable the unit. We have done this a few times and it works great. We put our customer support number on the device when we "brick it" and we have had thieves call us before, asking for us to ship them a mount (because they forgot to steal it) and we got their address and sent in the cops.
@h00ligan - the shape is largely a product of the 3 radios we have in the device: GPS, Cellular, and WiFi. The WiFi is a high gain antenna that can connect to a access point from FAR away. That is what is driving the shape of the device.
@deathrackeking - I used to live up in Seattle, so I am familiar with the area. Anyway, we don't have any "fleet specific" features yet like the one you are specifically looking for. But this type of feature is something on our road map.
@DaveTyranham - I think one thing I would add to Brian's response is that we are designed for every day use. So if you have a commute and you want to know what traffic is like on the 2 or 3 options you have to get to work, we can tell you which way to go. This is in addition to having the ability to route you to any new location as well.
@adam_h - We have a SIM card embedded in the device, so you don't have to do anything to get things up and running. We provision it against the network and your free 3 month trial automatically starts.
@blackbird001 - as of now that is not on our road map.
@gibson042 - Thanks!
@MasterShake - we are familiar with the numerous roads in the DC area that have interesting time based restrictions, like Clara Barton. Since we are focused on the commuter market, we assume that locals have a decent understanding of the restrictions in the area. For example, this means that we will route you onto Clara Barton and we expect you have an understanding of the restrictions of the road. We won't proactively route people onto HOV lanes that are separated from the main road, since we aren't certain if a user is in a state that they can drive in an HOV lane. Having said that, once you get into an HOV lane we won't route you out of it.
@jwardell - We are actively looking at "search along my route" functionality, so this is something that will come in the future. We currently don't have all the routing / detour features that the competition has, but these will come over time. In terms of "auto turn on", we turn on the unit when your car is started, and turn it off when your car is shut off... pretty simple. We have a real light sensor in the device, in addition to automatic day/night mode switching. Sorry the lack of BT and way points are deal killers for you, hopefully when we add those later you will consider us.
@detach - glad you appreciate the effort... and if any of my comments above are stupid or have typos please assume it is b/c I have had only about 3 hours of sleep :)
@dash_mark: Hi Mark,
Cool product, and I'm particularly interested in what the device will turn into in the future as it only gets smarter and smarter.
One thing I'm wondering about is privacy. What is the relationship between individual devices and your servers, and would someone be able to track an individual driver, even theoretically? Is information broadcast by individual devices uniquely tagged? If Bruce Wayne had a Dash Express, would an intern working at your company be the first to realize he was secretly Batman?
@dash_mark: is there any way to find out what kind of density the Dash has in a given market? Perhaps the website could provide a sample route in a given market so people could see what kind of information they could expect to get from the Dash Express. I'm really interested in the device, but would only get traffic information via other Dash users in my area because my city and most of my driving areas aren't quite large enough to be on traffic.com.
@dash_mark: so is it going to be available in Canada? more specifically the greater Toronto area? if so, will the real time traffic feature be available as well?
if so, i am sooooo down with the dash. let me know when it's coming up north ok?
I was one of the lucky beta testers of the original product and ended up purchasing the shipping unit in January to continue testing. I parked my Garmin 660 for the Express. I have logged several thousand miles with the Express around Los Angeles. It has been a huge improvement for me over my previous GPS devices. I use Send 2 Car all the time and frankly this is my killer feature. I right click on just about any address on my Mac and send it to my Express. I can queue up the days meeting on my desktop and use them throughout the day. Less typing on my GPS is always good. I also like the Express traffic display that gives me street level traffic on many major streets around LA. I like the "over the air" software updates. With my Garmin 660 I would forget to connect it and miss important updates. Very frustrating.
I've been following this product a long time, and it looks truly awesome. WANT.
But....The single biggest problem for me is the subscription fee. Garmin/Tom-Tom: none of the fancy stuff, but no monthly fee (unless you pay for their traffic update services of course).
And I have a hard and fast rule: avoid recurring fees at all costs if at all possible. Save for car/house/retirement/kids tuition instead (and youd be surprised how much better Im doing bc of this)
Oh, How I long for the day that the internet is always on, and free. That day shall come eventually. I hope. I mean, it better!
In the mean time, carry on Dash!
Amazon will be selling dash units within the next 30 days at a discounted price of $399 instead of $499
[www.gpsreview.net]
correction... instead of the original price of $599 (A savings of $200!)
@dash_mark: Hi Mark, UPS has reported that mine was delivered at 9:24am this morning :) ... left at the front door :/ ... when nobody was home... >(
I really hope it is still there when I get home. I'm not very happy that it was not sent "signature required", nor do I recall the option when I ordered it at CES from your VP of Sales.
Now I may have to drive 40 miles out of my way at lunchtime and rush home to see if it's there.
My excitement has turned to anxiety!
@ackthbbft: That's okay, for everyone that complains about about something being left at the door there are two people complaining that they have to take the day off to wait for the item to arrive!
@markgm: Well, my roommate has tomorrow off, so I was perfectly willing to have UPS leave a tag on my door today saying they needed a signature, since she could have signed for it when they redelivered tomorrow.
Of course, this wouldn't have been an issue at all had they used FedEx. Even if I wasn't home, I could pick it up at the FedEx office after 5pm.
Hi gang! This is Brandon from Dash stepping in for Mark as he is doing back-to-back interviews with all the press today, and we didn't want to lose touch with all the Gizmodo folks out there.
@frigg: Customer privacy is a big concern for us, so we strip out all identifying information before we receive the traffic information. We couldn't track you even if we wanted to.
@afreemaniii: For competitive reasons (as I'm sure you can imagine), we don't share the number of customers in each metro area. However, we are certainly working on ways to communicate the coverage of the Dash Driver Network to potential customers.
@B1663R: No Canada right now, but rest assured that our friends up north are certainly in our plans.
@ackthbbft: I believe that shipments were sent signature required, and I know quite a few customers who got the message "No one to sign. Shipment returned to Dist Center. Try delivery again." But if UPS did leave it at your door, I too hope that it is there!
I beta tested this product and it works great. The problem I have is that the subscription model doesn't include a lifetime service option, like TiVo (they still offer it) and Sirius. Most companies selling hardware subsidize the price dramatically so they can get you on a contract. I hate to say this about a neat product, but I smell ooma and VUDU all over this because of the high price. Navigon offers a lifetime traffic service, which is not the same as Dash' use of GPRS, but it's at $100. I'd be willing to pay $500 for a Dash lifetime service plan, like I did for my DVR and satellite radio.
Some of us just won't get caught up in monthly commitments, nor a mere year or two, and we would rather pay a lump sum upfront. As the economy continues to sour and Dash struggles to gain market share from broke consumers who already own GPS' (and have a million subscriptions), I'm hoping they will offer a lifetime service plan for the device.
Just a stupid consumer here.
@Amiga: I ordered my Dash with a 2-year prepaid service contract. I don't think $9.99 a month is unreasonable, particularly since it includes over-the-air updates, which would normally cost $100 a year for a replacement SD card from Garmin or TomTom, anyway.
Even TiVo canceled their lifetime plan for about two years, because it didn't make them money. They have brought it back, but with a higher cost and greater limitations.
However, if Dash decides it's in their interest to initiate a lifetime plan, I would probably do it.
@PiNPOiNT: Correction again, Amazon.com is selling the Dash today at $399.
Also, I actually think the $9.99/month service fee (first 3 months free) is reasonable. It's doesn't just pay for the data you get from the internet, but also from the real-time traffic data that Dash monitors from all of the units on the road, and the historical data they are compiling from that monitoring.
Ultimately, a year's worth of service is at the lower end of what you'd pay for a map update for any other GPS, and you don't have to wait a year for these updates to come out, or plug in to a computer to get them. They are automatic and real-time. Plus, you get the traffic. Overall, I think this is a bargain in the GPS space.
People - I have to share the best customer service experience ever. I pre-ordered my Dash first thing in the morning on day one from the east coast (obviously I was really anxious). I was very disappointed with the first delay in February, but I was very much so looking forward to the March 27th date. March 27th can, I recieved my email with my tracking number and waited, and waited. Finally, I called UPS to find out where my package was, and they stated that it should be at my house soon. Well after waiting some more, I called them back - this time they said they couldn't find it. Long story short, I called Dash at least hoping they could get their money back from UPS seeing that I wasn't getting my unit. Dash informed me that they would call me back once they heard something. About 10min before I was leaving work, my cell phone rings, the voice on the other end says "Hi, this is Paul Lego from Dash Navigation" - I knew I had heard of this name before. He's the CEO. Anyways, Paul took my tracking number, called a few of his connections and mysteriously UPS finds my device and delivered it that night. So I appreciate Dashs' level of customer service, and I love the device also. If you are teetering on this product, I am happy to say that at least you can expect a high level of customer service, which is hard to find nowdays. Thanks to the entire Dash team for their efforts on the device!
I'm curious about the motorcycle application. In California, a lane splitting motorcycle could seriously pollute the traffic data for other users. Conversely, how would the Dash know it was on a motorcycle and be able to go HOV or lane-spli