Don't think it has been requested by anyone, I'd like to be able to have two Web browser windows open at the same time. There is plenty of useful information to display, for example stock updates in one window, news in another, etc.
Perhaps one web browser window could show what is in front of the car so that you don't get in an accident while checking on stock quotes
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I'll add that it would be nice if it could highlight the top 3 alternative routes to auto-route around extreme patches of red and give the option to select one in real time.
I've been thinking about this, but does the NAV routing algorithm take into consideration the traffic info? It wouldn't be that much more effort. From what I understand, when attempting to calculate a route, the computer assigns approximate average speeds to various roads (ex. 50mph highway, 30mph main city street, 20 mph city side street) and then calculates fastest route based on the average speeds times the distance traveled on those types of road. It wouldn't be but 1 additional step to assign approximate average speeds to each traffic status... such as highway green = 50mph, highway yellow = 40mph, highway red = 10 mph. etc...
I suspect that the android tablet in the dash isn't doing the number crunching, but instead that is delegated to the google computers, which is then downloaded to the android tablet, which then does the turn by turn. But in the event that the Tablet is doing the number crunching, it would be nice to have a user option that allowed us to tell the NAV whether or not to incorporate the traffic data.
On a less important side note, one of my old Alpine NAV systems had default speeds set for various road types... such as 50 mph for highway. It had the option of changing those default numbers to get a more accurate "quickest route" calculation and more accurate ETA. For example, if you know that you don't max out at 55 mph on highway, but usually drive around 80 mph, you could put 73 mph for highway and get a more accurate NAV route.