I am having a problem with receiving Traffic Information, have not been receiving it for about 1.5 months.
Anyone else having the problem???

 

I've been getting it. A month ago, I had a different RLX but it was working on that car as well.

Since we're on the subject (sort of), I have to say that I'm beginning to wonder about the efficacy of cellular traffic.

It reports the US Interstate traffic in real time, but the advantage of having traffic on US primary and secondary roads is more or less anecdotal. If you see traffic on the screen reporting with hyphens instead of a solid line, you are looking at typical [sic] traffic patterns, not real time traffic patterns.

Even on a major US artery like US Route 1, you can be in a complete standstill stall in heavy traffic, and look over and see the green hyphens that say you'd have been just fine in normal circumstances.

Since the primary and secondary routes are so unreliable, and since we've had to remove satellite weather to get cellular traffic, I can't help wondering if there isn't a better solution out there somewhere. I sort of miss satellite weather. Even though the maps wouldn't zoom in closer than 50 miles, you could still look at the satellite radar map and see if you were heading into something without having to pick up your iPhone to look.

I believe that our ultimate answer at some point the next few years is to allow the upper screen to reflect exactly what is on your iPhone's screen. That'd solve a lot of problems.

We'd still need a vehicle to have its own cellular antenna in order for AcuraLink to work, and for emergency reporting to work, but I wonder if allowing the owner to have a mirror of his own smartphone isn't the ultimate answer to a number of issues.

But...yes I am getting cellular traffic 100% of the time, for whatever that is worth.

:-)

 

Not having had weather maps in any of my previous cars, I can't miss it. My CTS-V has XM weather, which shows temp reports along my route. On road trips, for maps (which I prefer) I use a weather app for my iPhone and plan accordingly.

I have been receiving traffic continuously since activating Acuralink last week.

 

I had the same problem last week, the TRF did not come up on the display on my way home from work. It was working fine in the AM on my way to work. I called Acuralink from the car they forwarded me to Acura Customer Relationship who sent me to Tech Support. They re-booted the system which is now working fine. Fyi, I usually turn it on with the voice command "Display Traffic".

 

turn it on?
Once on, mine is always on

My gripe is the lines are too small and if you have a route programmed in, it is virtually impossible to see. I liked it before when the route color changed with traffic

 

Agree, the color are so light around the route it hard to tell the color.

 

I notice this morning when I started my car that the TRF was green but there was no highlights around my routes. Once I used voice command and said "display traffic" the highlight showed up. This makes me believe the traffic display highlights are not on all the time except after you intialize it with a voice or manual command.

 

When you said, "Display traffic" did you happen to notice whether the traffic highlights were hyphens, or solid lines?

 

I turned mine on once and traffic shows up ever since. no command necessary

there is a slight delay before all of the traffic shows up. Perhaps you are not waiting long enough

 

When you said, "Display traffic" did you happen to notice whether the traffic highlights were hyphens, or solid lines?

It was solid

I turned mine on once and traffic shows up ever since. no command necessary. There is a slight delay before all of the traffic shows up. Perhaps you are not waiting long enough

Could be, I will wait and see if it shows up.

 

In that case I am going to experiment today to see if I can turn some of my hyphens into solid lines.

:-)

Thanks!

 

hyphens will not turn solid
they are roads that do not have direct sensors and flow is inferred from other sources

 

Well. Dash it all.

 

FYI, here what I got out of the manual and you are correct, I waited and the traffic showed up on the display.

AcuraLink Real-Time TrafficTM
Displays continuously updated traffic information and recalculates your route in response to traffic flow, incidents, or road closures. (P108).

P13
Double car with green TRF - Traffic information available
No icon: Out of coverage area
Traffic flow indicator - solid lines
Red - Heavy
Orange - Moderate
Green - Free-flow

 

Latest Update:
Those of us having a problem with their Traffic notification, please note that the fix was corrected by the dealership by resetting the battery connection.


Acura Tech Support stated that if a No Reception Is Received message is displayed on the upper display, check for a Red Light in the center of the overhead switches. A Red light signifies a hardware problem and after a S/W Reload and system Diagnostic Troubleshooting, last step was to reset the Battery.


All is well and I have both a Green light and my Traffic Monitoring icon.

 

Is the source of this data via XM and Navteq?

 

Just adding my "Plus one" to this. :-)

Whatever corrective lenses I need to be wearing to see those lines right beside the routed path, I don't have them.

 

This worked well for me yesterday on the way home.

Well, it worked well after the car finally understood after the third attempt that I'd said, "Go home." I don't know why it was a problem because I was on the NAV screen, but it kept giving me Help/General Commands instead of routing me.

A little frustrating.

But, anyway, I was beginning to drive home at the beginning of rush hour yesterday, headed to the Interstate that AcuraLink said to head for, when the NAV computer interrupted me with a QuickRoute update that put me onto primary roads instead, because there was already a traffic incident on my part of the Interstate.

Took less than five minutes into the route to get re-routed automatically, and it kept me out of a traffic jam that would have been annoying.

 

NOW, we know what the Little Red Light indicates.

 

It's a hybrid system.

The delivery of traffic information is a proprietary cellular connection that is unique to each vehicle, and not connected to your personal cellular connection. You'll seldom lose that vehicular cellular connection...but it does happen. Nobody's been able to tell me yet how the cellular connection works, to what arrays it connects, but it's clearly more than one company's arrays.

You can notice if you watch the signal strength meter in the bend of the L that you'll be traveling with only one way showing for a while, and then it'll suddenly switch to full strength. And this will be while your personal iPhone shows a completely different strength of signal.

The map's physical appearance and road information is related to Navteq, and your physical location is via the use of four GPS satellites.

I don't think XM has anything to do with mapping now, except for the coincidence that they lease space on the same four satellites.

 

FYI, the TLX NAV system has a "legend" page that outlines exactly what all the various colors indicate for traffic information. Haven't checked to see if the RLX NAV has the same.

Also, noticed that they fixed the traffic lines "visibility" issue in the TLX NAV. The lines are VERY visible, with all the various colors using a much more brighter flourescent variation of the colors versus the dimmed, dark color scale we have now in the RLX. Again another area that should be easy to address with a software update. It's been over a year now that the RLX has been out and not a single software update from Acura............

 

mine does not do a good job of increasing destination time based on traffic. Yesterday clock time increased 20 minutes while time to destination decreased 5 minutes while in the middle of traffic jam

 

Following up on my last post - I found the "Map Legend" page in the RLX NAV. And low and behold....the colors used to show the various types of traffic info in the Traffic Legend page are actually the same brighter fluorescent color scheme used in the TLX!

However, it looks like there is either a bug or they fubared the color scheme used to display the traffic info within the actual navigation maps, because they are certainly not the same bright colors as you see displayed in the Traffic Legend page.

Software update???

 

I was stuck at a standstill yesterday for about ten minutes while the NAV showed "typical" traffic, green hash marks.

At least that's what it showed when I squinted and shoved my head down to look at it.

:-)

Acura should know to improve on this in the future.

 

ACURA=THE FUTURE IS ACTUALLY NOW! This should be fixed ASAP and it is only about a dozen lines of code. Agree with you George.

 

I can understand it not adjusting destination time if the traffic congestion is not yet received and displayed, but in my situation the flow was shown as Red, I was in the middle of it and still had my destination time based on speed limit