Garmin Hazard Reporting

[Psamathe]

To be fair to Garmin, the hazard reporting did successfully help me to be aware of one mahoosive pothole ... Unfortunately it was on the other side of the road

I do sometimes wonder the degree that we can become dependent on automated warnings and reduce our attendance to eg road surface. I don't know how much of a risk but if we were normally beeped/pop-up warned of potholes would be gradually stop bothering to look out so carefully?

When encountering walkers on road, approaching from behind it can take a lot of noise to alert them to your presence and I wonder if they have become used to approaching vehicles have loud ICE engines to warn them (not yet being used to electric vehicles).

Ian

 

[freiston]

How did you turn it off. It irritates me (and on a couple of occasions has misplaced me on a map when I was close to the Visual Partner indicator). I've done lots of online searching and only ever found endless grips from people bemoaning that you can't turn it off. I only ever use one profile so happy to turn it off in all(one) profiles.

Ian

I can't remember. I've just tried going through the menu options and can't find it either. A web search suggests that it can't be done though in other posts it has been suggested that setting the Virtual Partner average/default speed to really low or high (when creating a new route) in route does the trick.

May be I dreamt the whole thing or just got mixed up.

Another community help page says:

Go to Settings - Activity Profiles. Select the desired profile. Go to Data Screens. - Add New - Add Virtual Partner. Click the Virtual Partner. Set speed to zero. Turn Show on Screen off. That should at least make sure you won't be bothered anymore

EDIT: After thinking about it, I reckon the above is what I did - I checked my data screens and the Virtual Partner screen is there with a crossed out eye next to it, meaning screen is there but can't be seen.