HUD Engineer

On a related note, I - among others I suspect - urged the BBC not to stop the Red Button (old CEEFAX teletext ) service, when they announced they were planning to axe it. I find it a good way to browse a well honed precis of the news, while some less absorbing news story is airing. I pointed out that pretty much every TV in the land has the hardware to receive it, only the BBC still uses it, and while I know it doesn't appeal to them as a news service, because they can't actually monitor usage easily, and it doesn't get likes, I pointed out that part of their name and modus operandi is Broadcast. In the case of RDS Traffic, nobody seems to have a duty to supply the service, but there are still a lot of would-be users, thwarted for want of a service that was due to run for another 4 years. That said, as purchasers and users of cars with TMS provided, does someone - car manufacturers, government, have a duty to supply a service that was there when we bought our cars, and which was scheduled to be available unto 2030?

It is a crying shame that so many motorists have the technology, but nobody has an obligation to provide the service as intended. I've just spent good money updating maps, figuring that the Traffic aspect would make it worth paying good money for, only to learn that it doesn't. In theory (a half-baked idea), it sounds like there could be a market for a product not far altered from my BT/FM Transmitter, which I find so useful for hands-free. The device would need to be fed a traffic stream (from a phone app) via BT, and then FM Transfer to the Head. It would however, tie you to having the Head tuned to an FM channel that might be less satisfying than regular FM broadcasts, unless you could organise bursts of data transfer, perhaps when alerted to there being queued data.