Hi there Luddites! My new 2460LMT shows me on occasion 'time to home xx
minutes' or 'time to (Some destination) xx minutes' on the top of the screen
where normally the next streets are announced when driving WITHOUT being on
a route.

How do I turn this 'off'? It must somehow think that due to where I am and
the time of day, it presumes I am going to that particular destination.
First time I saw this, I freaked ('big brother is watching out for you'). In
reality, I prefer it to simply show me the upcoming streets and not presume
it knows where I am going!

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Regards -

- Andrew

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:26:37 -0400, Andrew wrote:

> Hi there Luddites! My new 2460LMT shows me on occasion 'time to home xx
> minutes' or 'time to (Some destination) xx minutes' on the top of the screen
> where normally the next streets are announced when driving WITHOUT being on
> a route.
>
> How do I turn this 'off'? It must somehow think that due to where I am and
> the time of day, it presumes I am going to that particular destination.
> First time I saw this, I freaked ('big brother is watching out for you'). In
> reality, I prefer it to simply show me the upcoming streets and not presume
> it knows where I am going!

Possibly the message is not intended for you.

Do you hear strange noises in the dark of night?

Please be aware I'm just playing :-)

Seriously, I wonder if it somehow gets into a routing mode instead of
just reporting your position...It's a mystery to me too.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[wad99]

The 2460 has "My trends". If every day at 3:00 you drive down a certain road to go home. It will predict you are going home if you meet the criteria. You can turn of My Trends in your settings.

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:26:37 -0400, "Andrew" <(E-Mail Removed)> pisze:

>How do I turn this 'off'? It must somehow think that due to where I am and
>the time of day, it presumes I am going to that particular destination.
>First time I saw this, I freaked ('big brother is watching out for you').

This is feature called myTrends. You can turn it off with menu:
Tools -> Settings -> Navigation -> car -> nuRoute -> myTrends

Your nuvi is collecting data about your movements and is trying to
guess where are you going at the moment. When you connect your nuvi to
PC, these data could be send to Garmin too, just watch your agrements,
when using Garmin software like GarminMapUpdater or myGarmin site
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Pozdrawiam,
Andrzej Popowski

Andrzej Popowski wrote:
:: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:26:37 -0400, "Andrew" <(E-Mail Removed)> pisze:
::
::: How do I turn this 'off'? It must somehow think that due to where I
::: am and the time of day, it presumes I am going to that particular
::: destination. First time I saw this, I freaked ('big brother is
::: watching out for you').
::
:: This is feature called myTrends. You can turn it off with menu:
:: Tools -> Settings -> Navigation -> car -> nuRoute -> myTrends
::
:: Your nuvi is collecting data about your movements and is trying to
:: guess where are you going at the moment. When you connect your nuvi
:: to PC, these data could be send to Garmin too, just watch your
:: agrements, when using Garmin software like GarminMapUpdater or
:: myGarmin site --
:: Pozdrawiam,
:: Andrzej Popowski

- Andrzej - thanks! I actually thought I had disabled this a while back
because I had seen it when running through the options, but apparently I did
not since when I went to it this AM, it was indeed 'enabled' as an option.
When I clicked 'disable', it asked if I wanted to clear its history which I
said 'yes' to, and all seems well so far as of tonight.

I appreciate your taking the time to answer.

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Regards -

- Andrew