What is this red dot?
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I don't know. As the direction of the car changes, the location of the dot changes. If the direction of travel is at the top, I would expect the dot to be at the bottom all the time.
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I don't use that screen on the multi information display. I checked both the main manual and the navigation manual, but I didn't find any information about the red dot, but I can take a guess. I suspect that the dot is showing the relationship between your current location and the destination that you currently have set. Another possibility is that it is showing the relationship between your current location and the next turn on the route to your destination.
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I don't use that screen on the multi information display. I checked both the main manual and the navigation manual, but I didn't find any information about the red dot, but I can take a guess. I suspect that the dot is showing the relationship between your current location and the destination that you currently have set. Another possibility is that it is showing the relationship between your current location and the next turn on the route to your destination.
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I've also noticed that, sometimes when I'm pulling the car into the garage, a parking assist screen appears on the main 8" display that says to "check surroundings", and, on that screen, a similar red dot briefly appears. I have no idea what that red dot means, either.
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I believe on my 2017 the red dot pertains to the destination when the Navi is set. Not sure why it would be there otherwise. My guess would be in relation to your "home" if you have it marked? Let us know if and when you find out for sure.
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I don't use that screen on the multi information display. I checked both the main manual and the navigation manual, but I didn't find any information about the red dot, but I can take a guess. I suspect that the dot is showing the relationship between your current location and the destination that you currently have set. Another possibility is that it is showing the relationship between your current location and the next turn on the route to your destination.
lesz was pretty much spot on. I said I did not have an active destination, and that was true. However, I did check and the last destination I had was paused but not deleted. So the dot was indeed showing that location relative to my direction.
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I just got home from driving about 100 miles. During the trip, i monitored that multi information screen and made a number of observations that are, for the most part, consistent with what I speculated in my first post in this thread.
First, the red dot only appears when a destination is set.
Second, the red dot does indicate the direction of your destination relative to your current location.
Also, though, when you are driving on a road with curves, the system seems like it can get momentarily confused. When the road curves, the system seems to anticipate where your destination will be relative to your current location based on assuming that your direction of travel will continue in the direction that the curve in the road took you. When that happens, the location of the red dot can temporarily be inaccurate, and it can bounce around on the screen momentarily.
As a side note, when I was monitoring the multi information screen and the map, at one point, I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have been, and I didn't notice that there were cars stopped ahead of me at a traffic light. For the first time in the almost exactly 2 years since I've had the 2017 ES, the auto braking kicked in. It may well have saved me from plowing into the car ahead of me. Long ago, I came to the conclusion that whatever cost is added to the car by equipping it with the various safety systems, that cost is well worth whatever it is if it saves you from an accident even one time. Today, I confirmed that thinking.
First, the red dot only appears when a destination is set.
Second, the red dot does indicate the direction of your destination relative to your current location.
Also, though, when you are driving on a road with curves, the system seems like it can get momentarily confused. When the road curves, the system seems to anticipate where your destination will be relative to your current location based on assuming that your direction of travel will continue in the direction that the curve in the road took you. When that happens, the location of the red dot can temporarily be inaccurate, and it can bounce around on the screen momentarily.
As a side note, when I was monitoring the multi information screen and the map, at one point, I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have been, and I didn't notice that there were cars stopped ahead of me at a traffic light. For the first time in the almost exactly 2 years since I've had the 2017 ES, the auto braking kicked in. It may well have saved me from plowing into the car ahead of me. Long ago, I came to the conclusion that whatever cost is added to the car by equipping it with the various safety systems, that cost is well worth whatever it is if it saves you from an accident even one time. Today, I confirmed that thinking.
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I just got home from driving about 100 miles. During the trip, i monitored that multi information screen and made a number of observations that are, for the most part, consistent with what I speculated in my first post in this thread.
First, the red dot only appears when a destination is set.
Second, the red dot does indicate the direction of your destination relative to your current location.
Also, though, when you are driving on a road with curves, the system seems like it can get momentarily confused. When the road curves, the system seems to anticipate where your destination will be relative to your current location based on assuming that your direction of travel will continue in the direction that the curve in the road took you. When that happens, the location of the red dot can temporarily be inaccurate, and it can bounce around on the screen momentarily.
As a side note, when I was monitoring the multi information screen and the map, at one point, I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have been, and I didn't notice that there were cars stopped ahead of me at a traffic light. For the first time in the almost exactly 2 years since I've had the 2017 ES, the auto braking kicked in. It may well have saved me from plowing into the car ahead of me. Long ago, I came to the conclusion that whatever cost is added to the car by equipping it with the various safety systems, that cost is well worth whatever it is if it saves you from an accident even one time. Today, I confirmed that thinking.
First, the red dot only appears when a destination is set.
Second, the red dot does indicate the direction of your destination relative to your current location.
Also, though, when you are driving on a road with curves, the system seems like it can get momentarily confused. When the road curves, the system seems to anticipate where your destination will be relative to your current location based on assuming that your direction of travel will continue in the direction that the curve in the road took you. When that happens, the location of the red dot can temporarily be inaccurate, and it can bounce around on the screen momentarily.
As a side note, when I was monitoring the multi information screen and the map, at one point, I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have been, and I didn't notice that there were cars stopped ahead of me at a traffic light. For the first time in the almost exactly 2 years since I've had the 2017 ES, the auto braking kicked in. It may well have saved me from plowing into the car ahead of me. Long ago, I came to the conclusion that whatever cost is added to the car by equipping it with the various safety systems, that cost is well worth whatever it is if it saves you from an accident even one time. Today, I confirmed that thinking.
As I discovered, while I didn't have an active destination, the previous one was paused, not deleted. So it still kept showing that.
On to the next mystery.
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I just got home from driving about 100 miles. During the trip, i monitored that multi information screen and made a number of observations that are, for the most part, consistent with what I speculated in my first post in this thread.
First, the red dot only appears when a destination is set.
Second, the red dot does indicate the direction of your destination relative to your current location.
Also, though, when you are driving on a road with curves, the system seems like it can get momentarily confused. When the road curves, the system seems to anticipate where your destination will be relative to your current location based on assuming that your direction of travel will continue in the direction that the curve in the road took you. When that happens, the location of the red dot can temporarily be inaccurate, and it can bounce around on the screen momentarily.
As a side note, when I was monitoring the multi information screen and the map, at one point, I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have been, and I didn't notice that there were cars stopped ahead of me at a traffic light. For the first time in the almost exactly 2 years since I've had the 2017 ES, the auto braking kicked in. It may well have saved me from plowing into the car ahead of me. Long ago, I came to the conclusion that whatever cost is added to the car by equipping it with the various safety systems, that cost is well worth whatever it is if it saves you from an accident even one time. Today, I confirmed that thinking.
First, the red dot only appears when a destination is set.
Second, the red dot does indicate the direction of your destination relative to your current location.
Also, though, when you are driving on a road with curves, the system seems like it can get momentarily confused. When the road curves, the system seems to anticipate where your destination will be relative to your current location based on assuming that your direction of travel will continue in the direction that the curve in the road took you. When that happens, the location of the red dot can temporarily be inaccurate, and it can bounce around on the screen momentarily.
As a side note, when I was monitoring the multi information screen and the map, at one point, I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have been, and I didn't notice that there were cars stopped ahead of me at a traffic light. For the first time in the almost exactly 2 years since I've had the 2017 ES, the auto braking kicked in. It may well have saved me from plowing into the car ahead of me. Long ago, I came to the conclusion that whatever cost is added to the car by equipping it with the various safety systems, that cost is well worth whatever it is if it saves you from an accident even one time. Today, I confirmed that thinking.
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I would guess that my speed was probably in the 25-30 mph range when I and/or the car started to brake.