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46Navigation System
Driving to Your Destination
After calculating the route with the new
method, the system displays a map of
your current location. The calculated
route will be highlighted as a blue line,
and a voice prompt will tell you how to
proceed along the hi ghlighted route.
Touch Voice to have the guidance
repeated.Viewing the Destination Map
Touching View Dest. Map displays a
map of the destination vicinity. Press the
CANCEL or NAVI BACK button to
return. You can view the destination
map anytime while on route saying
“Display destination map.”
Map Screen
When you select OK on the Calculate
route to screen, the map screen
appears, showing your highlighted route
in real time.
Route Line
When driving to a destination on
verified roads in a metropolitan area, the
route line is displayed as a blue line.
When driving in rural areas on
unverified streets (light brown color),
the route line changes to either a blue
dotted “vector line” pointing to your
destination, or a blue-pink line. See
Unverified Area Routing on page82 for
a detailed expl anation of how to enable
unverified routing, and the related
cautions and disclaimers.
NOTE:
You can always view the entire route by
simply saying, “Display entire route.”
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“Vector line” (unverified routing off)
Blue-pink unverified route line
(unverified routing on)
Guidance Prompts
As you get near the maneuver, you will
hear a voice reminder, and see a pop-up
window showing you the maneuver.
The number of reminders that you will
hear before a maneuver is determined
by Guidance Prompts in Setup on
page74.
With the factory default (Normal),
typically you will hear two prompts:
 The first is about 1/4 mile from the maneuver.
 The final prompt is close to your actual turn.
If the distance between the next two
driving maneuvers is very small, both
maneuvers are displayed on the screen
in a single window, and the voice will
remind you of both of them at the same
time. NOTE:
 You can say “Voice” or select
Voice
on the screen at any time to be
reminded of the next maneuver.
 Typically a pop-up guidance window shows your next turn, and a voice
guidance prompt is heard. The timing
of these prompts varies, depending on
the type of road you are on, and the
distance to your next maneuver.
When given guidance in unverified
areas, the words, “If Possible,” are
inserted before each guidance prompt.
See Unverified Area Routing on page82
for more details about unverified
routing.
Driving to Your Destination
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Driving to Your Destination
Map Features
Dark Green: Park Gray:
Light Blue: Hospital Airport/Stadium/Business
Brown: Shopping Mall Blue: Body of Water
Light Brown: Blue/Green: CemeteryIndian Reservation Matte Blue: University
Green: Golf Course
NOTE:
If you move the joystick ov er an area (map features
shown above), the name is displayed on the screen.
Acura Dealer
School
Restaurant
AT M
Parking Lot
Post OfficeHonda Dealer
Hospital
Grocery Store
Gas Station
Hotel/Lodging
Parking Garage
Freeway Exit Information
Map Screen Legend
Map Orientation
(see page53)
Map Scale Adjustment
(Mile or km per half inch
appears only when you
ZOOM IN or OUT.)
(see page52)
Current Map Scale
(see page52)
ICON Button
(see page56)
“Breadcrumbs”
(see Off-road Tracking on page58)
NOTE:
See Map Legend from the Information screen for further explanation (see page69).
Direction of Destination
(When on route)
(see page50)
Voice
(see page47)
(Announces next
driving instruction)
Distance to Destination
(see page50) Time to Destination
(see page50)
Waypoint
(When on route)
(see page61)
Current Street
(see page6)
Vehicle Position (see page59)
(Use voice command, “Display curr ent location,” or touch the icon to show the current location.)
Direction List

(see page50)
Blue Line
Calculated route
(see page46) Destination Icon
(see page54)
Streets
(see
Map Overview on page6, or Unverified
Area Routing on page82)
Red: Interstates or Freeways
Black: Verified Street
Light Brown: Unverified Street
Landmark Icon (see page54)
“North Up”
“Heading Up”
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Driving to Your Destination
Showing Icons on the Map
Touching the ICON button on the map
screen displays the following screen:
The screen consists of the following
items:
Icon Bar (row of icon symbols)
The icon bar allows you to manually
select the icons that are displayed on the
map (see page54 for a list of these
icons).
In the screen above, both gas station and
restaurants are selected. Touch the icons
to select (goes blue) or remove them
(symbol is gray). You can also display
or hide the same icons by using the
“Display” or “Hide” voice commands
(see page125)
Icon Options
This feature allows you to “fine tune”
some of the icons on the Icon bar (See
Icon Options below for more
information).
Guidance Mode
When on route, this item allows you to
select between a single screen (with
occasional pop-up guidance windows),
or a split screen (containing one half
map, and one half guidance/directions
list window). see page51 for an
explanation of this feature, and see
page89 for Setup.
Exit Screen
Select Return to return to the map
screen.
Icon Options
Selecting Icon Options displays the
following screen:
This feature allows you to “fine tune”
some of the icons on the Icon bar. The
three icon choices, “Parking” (lot or
garage), “Restaurant” (specific type or
types of food), and “Other icons”
(hospitals, schools, etc.), can each be
tailored to your needs.
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For instance, let’s assume that your
hospital is not displa yed on the map, and
you want to make sure that your settings
are correct. You would do the
following:
 First you would ensure that the “OTHER ICON” button on the Icon
bar is blue (See Icon Bar above).
 Second, you select Icon Options
and verify that hospital option is also
on (blue). This procedure is explained
below.
If you select Other Icons from the
Select category for icon settings
screen, the other icons options are
displayed: In the example above,
POST OFFICE
and SCHOOL are selected and will
show up on the map. To also see
HOSPITAL on the map, this would
need to be turned on to select it so it
appears as below.
Exit, and save your settings by selecting
Done . NOTE:
 When viewing the map screen, you
can turn some icons on using voice
control.
 See Voice Command Index on
page124 for the available
“Display” and “Hide” icon
command.
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Information Features
Information Screen
When you say “Information” or press
the INFO button, the display changes to:
NOTE:
If some items appear to be grayed out,
and cannot be selected, it is because you
did not select OK on the initial
Disclaimer screen. See System Start-up
on page17.
Roadside Assistance
An Acura Roadside Assistance number
is provided as a courtesy to Acura
clients. If you have a “paired” Bluetooth
phone, then you can call the nearest
Acura Roadside A ssistance by using
your system. Select CALL, and then
select Yes on the confirmation screen.
Voice Command Help
When you say or select Voice
Command Help , you will see the
following screen:
NOTE:
You can select an item by saying either
the line number or the item name.
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Unit Conversion
To perform a conversion:
1. Enter a numeric value to be converted (for example, 100).
2. Select the type of unit you want to convert (for example, weight). The
screen for that conversion type
appears (see illustrat ion in step 3).
3. Select the base unit (like pounds) that you wish to convert to some other
unit. So, in the example below,
100 lbs converts to 1600 ounces, 0.05
ton (US), etc.
NOTE:
 If you do not enter a value to be converted, only “Temperature” units
are selectable.
 Conversions using negative value may produce meaningless or
physically impossible values.
Key to Zagat Ratings
When you say or select Key to Zagat
Ratings , you will see the description of
ratings for surveyed restaurants.
 “Food,” “Decor,” and “Service” categories (red circle) are rated using
numbered values (e.g., 0-9, 10-15,
etc.)
 “Cost” (white circle) is the average cost of a meal (including drink and
tip).  The symbols, if displayed (blue
circle), indicate the following
information:
open on Sunday
closed on Sunday
open on Monday
closed on Monday
open for lunch
lunch not served
serving after 11 PM
no credit card accepted
Information Features
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Unverified Area Routing
Allows you to receive turn-by-turn map and voice guidance in unverified areas when on route to a destination (see Map Overview
on page6). The chart below illustrates the rou ting differences with this setting On or Off.
Unverified Area Routing: Off (factory default) Unverified Area Routing: On
Decision:
Why choose
On or Off? The driver wishes to navi
gate manually by using the
navigation map and choosing the streets that lead to
the destination. The dr iver understands that
unverified roads may not be accurate, and can contain
errors in location, na ming, and address range. The driver chooses to let the na
vigation system suggest possible
routing. The driver understands th at in some cases guidance may
not be appropria te. Unverified roads ma y not be accurate, and
can contain errors in locati on, naming, and address range.
What you
will see… A blue dotted vector line is
displayed on the map that
continually points to your destination. The driver
should stop and then use the ma p to select streets that
lead to the destination. A blue-pink dashed route line
highlights suggested unverified
streets on the map while traveling to your destination. This is in
sharp contrast to the normal blue route line displayed in verified
areas.
Cautionary
messages There are cautionary pop-up screens and voice
announcements, before and
during the route. These
serve as reminders that you should obey all traffic
restrictions. There are cautionary pop-up sc
reens and voice announcements,
before and during the route. These serve as reminders that you
should exercise additional ca ution, and obey all traffic
restrictions.
Guidance
(map/voice) There is no turn-by-turn map or voice guidance. Voi
ce guidance commands end with the words “If possible.”
This is to remind the driver to verify all traffic restrictions
before making a maneuver.
Directions
list A direction list is typicall
y not available. However,
depending on your route, dire ctions are provided to
help you reach the first available verified road. A direction list is provided s
howing street names and turn
symbols in pink.
System Set-up
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