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Dash Express GPS Updates Traffic Models, Software Update Coming

The Dash Express GPS just received its first historic traffic model update using the live Dash data gathered by users. That'll help predict traffic in areas where no Dash or other trusted data sources have been in the last 15 minutes. By end of month, a software update is coming with tweaks in performance, stability and routing. As for today's historic update, Dash recommends all users download the patch by Wi-Fi. Let's hope that more updates come often as this one, and with more features using that internet connection.

9:29 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Brian Lam
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ackthbbft at 10:19 PM on 05/07/08
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"By end of month, a software update is coming with tweaks in performance, stability and routing."

I like my Dash Express a lot, but the 3d map speed needs improvement. 2d is spot-on accurate, but 3d is always slightly behind my current location. Hopefully, this patch will fix that.

In the mean time, I'm content with the 2d mode.
junk at 11:16 PM on 05/07/08
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I hope they enable trip tracking. They're current response is that they don't want to do it, for privacy reasons. I'd love to be able to do a Google Maps mashup for road trips and the like. Right now I'm downloading the Blackberry Tracker pythong API so I can try and track my phone.
MONSTERGOC at 12:09 AM on 05/08/08
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Id rather use my GPS like a sextant, just help keep on course but not turn by turn. Otherwise its Fuc*ing GTA style and going with you gut feeling. It can be just as accurate in traffic as an algorithm in the real world.
redrabbit at 12:43 AM on 05/08/08
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Will people be able to keep switching their eyes between the road and the GPS that fast and often? I'm not sure if zig-zagging is necessarily a faster route...
Stearns at 01:04 AM on 05/08/08
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I have no where else to write this, but what the hell is up with all the nikon achten kutcher ads on this site. It's starting to erk me. And I don't care that I spelled his name wrong. I intentionally kept it wrong.
Spoony Bard at 01:13 AM on 05/08/08
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@Stearns: Good lord. I have to agree there. It's completely taken over.

Of course in a few hours no one will have any idea what you're talking about. :)
carmen89 at 01:18 AM on 05/08/08
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@Stearns: I WAS JUST THINKING THE SAME THING.
CAN WE PLEASE SEE SOMETHING MORE ATTRACTIVE THEN THIS NO TALENT DOUCHE? HOw about one of the Giz Writers in a sexy seductive black and white picture holding the Nikon camera in their whitey tighties and long thick white songs with cheese puffs and beer cans around them on a dirty old mattress ...anything is better then asston cuntcher
carmen89 at 01:21 AM on 05/08/08
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Oh by the way he looks like that one guy in Hannibal when he's getting his brain quick sauteed,loool. (when he has his head down and looking at the camera)
Stacky Botrus at 07:16 AM on 05/08/08
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Please shut up.
jwardell at 09:16 AM on 05/08/08
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Still waiting for dash to add all those missing features commonly found on other brands. Hopefully with the next update.

(As for the ads, I wouldn't know better. Sounds like my adblocker saved me from vomiting this morning)
ideaman2020 at 09:54 AM on 05/08/08
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@Stearns: @Spoony Bard: @carmen89: Ads? What ads?

Firefox Adblock Plus FTW!
carmen89 at 03:26 PM on 05/08/08
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@Stacky Botrus: No i don't think I can do that!...lemme try......no wait...no wait...NOPE can't do it@ideaman2020: I'm using Safari, idk for some reason Firefox dosn't make me feel good,lol. odd i know!