TMC in UK

Hi,

For any peugeot drivers with the Rt3 sat-nav system (the mono or colour
screen version), I have been dealing with Peugeot to ask why the TMC
system does not work in the UK, whilst it does work in the rest of
Europe. The TMC is the Traffic Monitor Control system in-built within
the RT3 which detects signals of slow traffic, accidents and causes the
sat-nav to automatically reroute the car to the fastest route around
the problems.

As I say, it works in the rest of Europe, but just not in the UK
becuase PSA, the company that works with peugeot to produce the
sterio/sat-nav wont pay for a UK licence as they state that the UK is
not intrested in such a facility.

In a reply from peugeot, they say:

"Thank you for your email dated 4th August.

I have spoken to our Technical Department, and can confirm your sat-nav
system does not receive TMC signals. Nor is there any plan to change
this.
Your unit will receive local information, but not TMC.

Thank you for contacting us.

Yours sincerely,


Sarah Emms
Customer Care Manager (H04A)
"

I would be interested to hear other peugeot drivers thoughts on this.

 

Hi,

Keep in mind that I don't own a RT3-equipped Pug, and never drove myself
through the UK.

That's the price to access technology which is sometimes amazing, and far
too much. Here, in France, the government asked the GSM providers to pay 1
billion euros (IIRC, huge !) to access UMTS (GSM 3-G). This was just a way
to put a tax on the atmosphere, as the government provides nor emitter nor
technology.
I guess it's the same kind of stuff with TMC over UK. The customer pays for
a policy or a choice he has not made, and hence justs suffers of it.

You can think about something else : the TMS isn't the main feature of the
RT3 (the same way an OLED display is not absolutely necessary on a headunit)
and I hope you'll have some fun with it (FM / AM reception and whatsoever).

Regards,
G.T

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