Garmin drives bigger features in latest automotive devices

Garmin, a market leader in GPS navigation, today continues its expertise with the launch of the compact GDR 530, GDR 560 and Garmin Drive 51 to equip drivers with a unified and safe driving experience.

The GDR 530 and GDR 560 are Garmin's new standalone driving recorders with a uniquely small and unobtrusive hardware design and new advanced driver awareness alerts. The Garmin GDR 530 and GDR 560 offer high-quality eyewitness recording with automatic incident detection (G-sensor) to save footage on impact, while also adding GPS capabilities for detailed time and location data.

Advanced driver alerts such as forward collision and lane departure warnings are integrated in both new GDR models to help prevent drivers from either driving too close to the vehicle ahead or drifting off road.

Now with the inclusion of new Sensory TrulyHandsfree voice controls, drivers can start and stop audio recordings and more through voice commands to help keep their hands on the wheel and focused on the drive.

The Garmin Drive 51 alerts the driver when there are upcoming dangerous curves, changes in speed limits, and when it detects the driver's fatigue. Ease-of-use plays a major role for drivers with dash cams, due to the extensive amount of information a driver can experience on and off the road with advancements in technology and ever-increasing road distractions. With the Garmin Drive 51, drivers need not be on the constant lookout for parking spaces and information. The Garmin Drive 51 has been improved to display parking availability and pricing range of parking spaces in the vicinity, with colour-coding for on-street and public carpark spaces.

Helping drivers stay alert while on the road is one of the main staples of the new Garmin GDR 530, GDR 560 and Garmin Drive 51 offerings. In addition to forward collision and lane departure warnings that can help drivers avoid incidents, the new GDR car dashboard cameras also provide speed camera warnings.

Motorists using Garmin's latest GPS car navigation and dashboard camera devices will now be automatically alerted as they approach the vicinity of over 300 traffic enforcement cameras here. When a motorist comes within 400m of any of the known traffic enforcement camera locations, the automotive device will sound an alert, the screen flashes a warning and the device tracks and shows the closing distance to the traffic enforcement camera.

While built-in traffic enforcement camera locations are not new, these new devices from Garmin are the first in Singapore to make use of official open data from the Singapore Police Force instead of relying on unofficial community-based data, which are unverified. This new feature has been incorporated into the Garmin GDR 530, GDR 560 and Garmin Drive 51, and will be available on older models including DriveAssist 50LM, DriveSmart 50LM, nuviCam LM, nuviCam 67LM, nuviCam 57LM, nuviCam 4592LM via a system update starting from mid-July 2017.

What's more, the models are outfitted for the very first time with the useful 'Go' alert - a helpful camera-assisted feature that notifies distracted drivers when traffic ahead of their vehicle begins to move. For monitoring purposes, the new parking mode option (cable sold separately) allows the GDR 530 and GDR 560 to automatically start recording a parked vehicle's surroundings if motion is detected while the engine is turned off.

For more information, visit www.garmin.com.sg.