No Hands With Navigon

Navigon’s Motion Sensor is a new feature that is claimed to help drivers maintain a stronger focus on road and traffic conditions.

Navigon’s Motion Sensor is a new feature that is claimed to help drivers maintain a stronger focus on road and traffic conditions.
There’s now hardly any need to touch the device to operate the navigation system. For instance, voice control is activated by a stroke of the frame. And a simple wave across the display is sufficient to activate the menu bar, which otherwise stays in the background.

The deactivation of the menu bar improves orientation in the map view, since the display shows an up to 15 percent larger map segment.

The Motion Sensor is installed in the housing of the respective devices and it only reacts when a movement of the hand is made intentionally at a distance of a couple of centimetres from the device. This ensures that no random gestures on the part of the driver inadvertently activate particular functions. When the driver’s hand gets closer to the display, it opens up the menu and shows the MyBest POI settings bar. This feature enables users to organise their special destinations as they see fit.

Personal favourite categories are displayed as icons on the map. This means that drivers always know at a glance where the next petrol station, parking facilities or a favourite fast-food restaurant can be found along the route.

A touch of the display or housing automatically activates Voice Control to let users control the key features of the navigation by spoken commands. Voice Control is not activated if the driver uses the menu bar or selects one of the special destinations. In such cases, it is only activated when one of the key functions, for instance volume control, is selected.