The Acura TSX Navigation System
I was just talking to my brother in New Jersey about how I was focusing my Car Tech blog on web videos featuring emerging car navigation technology. He asks me, "Well, what's available and/or new for Acura?" (incidentally, this is the type of car he drives to and from Rutgers 40 minutes each way). I decided to search for videos dealing with car navigation systems for Acuras, and sure enough I found a clip featuring the Acura TSX in-dash Navigation system.
The Acura TSX is one of Acura's newer luxury sports sedan models. While the car itself is mighty fine, the 2009 edition boasts a superb hands-free, voice-activated navigation system. This little sucker does more than just give you step-by-step directions to virtually any destination in the U.S., it can locate a whole bunch of other stuff too - service stations, banks, restaurants and damn near anything else you might be looking for when out on the road. The 2009 Acura TSX can also garner traffic conditions for your destination in case of any preferred or necessary re-routing. In my opinion, based on the video and other information available, this seems to be one of the more handy in-car nav systems available.
It sure seems like you did a desktop test driving on this car...!
I want to share with you a new product I found.
It?s called LIFEBELT. It?s a basic idea completed. You can?t start your vehicle without buckling up the seat belt with the Lifebelt installed. It is capable of fitting 7 passengers and also once the vehicle is started, if a seat belt is unbuckled the radio stops working and an audible alarm rings. For more info check out nobucklenostart on the web it?s a .com as well as the place I purchased mine. ipowererdirect / lifebelt. It?s a .net.
I use the Lifebelt in my car. I am pretty good about wearing my belt, but the main reason I bought the units is for my sons vehicle. He is 16 and is good about the seat belt when I?m with him, but you mix in friends and hustle and bustle of teenagers and it could be forgotten. Not anymore. I have complete peace of mind that my son is buckled up every time he is driving. Can?t put a price on that. But for the couple hundred I put into it. It?s worth every penny!
I like the catch phrase too. ?Don?t let ?if only? happen to your family.?
Note to the inventor:
Now my 4 year old Houdini is monitored. No more popping up in between the front seats with a surprise Hi!
All the kids know that if they unbuckle, the radio goes off and the alarm goes on.
Knowing the 16 year old is not taking it off once around the corner or after picking up friends is a great feeling.
Thank you!
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by TCLB001
April 21, 2009 2:05 PM PDT
- http://www.ipowerdirect.net/lifebelt/
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(3 Comments)I want to share with you a new product I found.
It?s called LIFEBELT. It?s a basic idea completed. You can?t start your vehicle without buckling up the seat belt with the Lifebelt installed. It is capable of fitting 7 passengers and also once the vehicle is started, if a seat belt is unbuckled the radio stops working and an audible alarm rings. For more info check out nobucklenostart on the web it?s a .com as well as the place I purchased mine. ipowererdirect / lifebelt. It?s a .net.
I use the Lifebelt in my car. I am pretty good about wearing my belt, but the main reason I bought the units is for my sons vehicle. He is 16 and is good about the seat belt when I?m with him, but you mix in friends and hustle and bustle of teenagers and it could be forgotten. Not anymore. I have complete peace of mind that my son is buckled up every time he is driving. Can?t put a price on that. But for the couple hundred I put into it. It?s worth every penny!
I like the catch phrase too. ?Don?t let ?if only? happen to your family.?
Note to the inventor:
Now my 4 year old Houdini is monitored. No more popping up in between the front seats with a surprise Hi!
All the kids know that if they unbuckle, the radio goes off and the alarm goes on.
Knowing the 16 year old is not taking it off once around the corner or after picking up friends is a great feeling.
Thank you!