Routing: Choice is good.
Most portable GPS devices today offer you only a single route choice to your destination. Dash goes the extra mile by presenting up to three different routes to a destination, and uses its traffic information to calculate your Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for each route. The traffic-based arrival times you get from Dash are more accurate, helping you decide which route is best for you. Even after you've selected a route, Dash even automatically alerts you when traffic conditions change significantly.
Traffic snapshot
Dash can also give you a quick snapshot of traffic in your area. Our map views let you easily visualize current traffic conditions around your location on major and secondary roads. Additionally, traffic conditions on your route are easily identifiable by color. Dash uses accepted conventions to quickly convey traffic at a glance: stop-and-go traffic is red, moderate congestion is yellow, relatively unobstructed is orange, and free-flowing roads are... you guessed it, green. If the lines are solid, they represent live traffic derived from the Dash Driver Network—the most timely and accurate source available. If they are dashed, the traffic data is either 3rd party sensor or historical data. As the Dash Driver Network grows in your area you'll see more and more of the dashed lines become solid. You've never had this much traffic information on the road before. And knowledge is power.
Flow data vs. Incident data
Freeway breakdowns and auto accidents are nice to know about, but what really matters is the speed of traffic around them. Most GPS devices that show traffic rely primarily on 'incident data,' which only tells you where and when an incident happened, not how it's affecting traffic now. Dash uses traffic flow data to help make Dash arrival times the most accurate on the road.
MyRoute
Maps and traditional GPS devices are great navigation tools, but they will never replace local street smarts. Drivers often know the best shortcuts to and from the places they frequent, but what they really want to know is whether their route is the smartest route today based on current traffic data. Dash is the only GPS that learns routes automatically based on user behavior. With Dash's new MyRoute feature, as drivers travel from one point to another, the device automatically learns their preferred route.
The next time that they drive between the same origin and destination, the first route choice will be a "MyRoute," complete with traffic-based arrival time data. Drivers can compare their "MyRoute" to the computed Dash routes, including traffic detours, and decide which one is optimal.