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like the nearest (Starbucks) I just respond "With a Dash you are only limited to your imagination." I can think of many times Dash has helped me while on the road but the following is an example of one of my favorite Dash moments that stands out. For several years I have always kept a laptop in my car with me for emergencies and had a access card for the Internet. To make matters worse it was now 4:30pm on a Friday and we knew that by the time we got to the restaurant so would the rest of the working world and it would be at least another hour wait to get a table. I have however been allowed to test drive this device before the general public was able to purchase one. I have had numerous people in my travels stop me and talk to me about "that thing on my dash" almost every day.
Bam there it was and a phone # as well. The fact it will never be out of date like the other thousands of dollars worth in paperweights sitting on my shelf from Garmin, Tom Tom and Magellan is an added plus. We had invited friends to join us and they were in a car right behind us. we had decided to leave around 4 to beat the dinner rush when we encountered a bad accident that had just happened right in front of us and were forced to stop on the Highway and wait for the emergency crews to clear the road. This was very difficult to use in the car, internet searches and responses were slow and these requests did not take into count my current location. And this was after waiting 10-20 minutes for it to start-up. The conversation usually starts "Is that a GPS on your windshield." I tell them that it is, but it is also the next level of the future of information delivery in their car and they need "Dash Express." I have even invited them to take a look at it first hand and show them the numerous bells and whistles like movie times, gas prices and the local weather and Weather Alert rss feed I created myself. typing in the restaurants name.
I have always been impressed with the Internet search ability of "Yahoo local" and Dash, but on one particular day. My family and I were driving to dinner at a brand new restaurant in town. It allows me a direct connection to information on the internet as well as it is portable, and it has never let me down. When we arrived there the line outside the door was huge. I heard several people complaining that the wait was going to be 2 hours.
I walked up to the receptionist and said I am 5 minutes early , gave my name and asked if they were running on time with reservations. I called the restaurant and made a reservation for 45 minutes from then. After having my dash unit for almost 1 year now I can't imagine being without it. But for me that thing was more than a GPS.It's a dream come true. Along comes Dash. Just for giggles I checked Dash.
she replied "Right this way I have your table ready" THANKS DASH. First off I want to state that I am not a paid employee of Dash nor have they paid me to make the following statements. This usually gets them thinking of something they would like to spontaneously look up from the internet while out on the road. My wife and I tried calling information on our cellphones to locate this new restaurant's number but since the restaurant was so new there was no listing yet.
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