The invention of satellite navigation has made traveling more interesting and faster. We explore new places and know whats special about the place. Specially the POI, Point of interest warning us the nearest gas stations, hospitals, ensuring us a very safe journey. But do any of us think about the disabled person? Every disabled drivers do have got a lot of motoring disgust story with them. They might have struggled right from not able to find parking bay to finding a service station. Almost all the sat nav available now are designed to benefit not the handicap.
An enterprising company has come forward to solve such difficulties with a new product, BBnav, a Blue Badge enabled satellite navigation designed specially for disable drivers. The system in addition to usual maps claims to know information about Blue Badge bays showing nearest accessible toilets, disabled accessible car parks, disability friendly point of interest that include radar toilets, accessible beaches and accommodations.
The functioning of the BBnav is quiet similar to other sat nav systems. The touch sensitive screen lets you select and navigate across the user friendly menu at ease. The quick start option lets you input destination for once you press the go button you will be taken to the colored map showing all the possible details until the destination point.
The on street parking database is the most comprehensive that lets you park your car over 10000 street parking bays including Red Route and Blue Badge bays. This unique feature takes your doubt when driving around searching for car parking space. You can easily search for the car parking of your choice using the clear color coded and icon mapping on the screen. The database of over 20000 point of interest data is been designed specifically to make BBN a perfect travel companion.
Users of BBnav complaint that unless the one advantage of bearing maps for disabled people, the BBnav unfit to benefits it users. BBnav do not know any information in detail, it just bluntly knows that there is a spot for disabled people without letting us know any further options. The upcoming speeding option is not informed to the user in prior so that the person could adjust his/her speed accordingly, to keep him away from law. The databases equipped on BBnav is owned by PIE- the public information exchange which sold rights to Navavo.
To conclude, BBnav is definitely a useful tool for disabled people but with limitation. The BBnav has gained popularity among people and it is in the hands of the manufacturers to produce more such product for the people who really need it.
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