
Placing a microSD card into the slot on the unit's bezel enables the unit's ECO logging functions that tracks and stores the vehicle's speed and travel data on the memory card for later analysis in using Pioneer's AVIC Feeds software. The ECO calculations take into account information gathered from the GPS antenna, speed sensor, and accelerometer when scoring your habits. The navigation system also has an ECO drive graph that monitors how economically you are driving on surface roads, on highways, and as an average of both.
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With the MSN Direct service, the X920BT gains access to traffic monitoring and data services including fuel price updates, weather forecasts, and local events and movie show times. Out of the box, the icon is dim, indicating it is inactive until the MSN Direct add-on module is installed. Oddly, Pioneer still devotes a large portion of the destination menu to an MSN Direct shortcut, even though Microsoft plans to shut off the service at the end of 2011. Once underway, the system issues clear turn-by-turn directions with text-to-speech street names and graphic lane guidance and detailed turn information. You also have the option of using the unit's voice command system to enter an address. Pioneer preloads the X920BT with a POI database that can be searched by name or category. You can navigate the map but touching and dragging, but there is no pinch and zoom support on the AVIC's resistive touch panel. However, once tapped, they expand to reveal larger buttons and submenus.


The onscreen controls for zooming and overlaying points-of-interest icons on the map are a bit small and difficult to hit. The AVIC's maps include 3D landmark and building data for major cities however, it doesn't have any terrain data as far as we can tell. A learning algorithm gathers information from this sets of sensors and theoretically will let the navigation system become more sensitive to what the vehicle is actually doing for example, did you make that slight left or not? A screen in the settings menu displays the status of the system's learning as a series of bar graphs. The unit also has a three-way electronic gyroscope.
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As part of the X920's installation, you can install an external GPS antenna and can optionally tap their vehicle's speed pulse sensor.
