Mercedes-Benz SL-Class 2014 Owners Manual - Manual (Page 366)

Displaying all traffic reports
X To switch to navigation mode: press the
Ø button.
X To show the menu: press W the COMAND
controller.
X Select Traffic Traffic in the navigation system
menu bar by turning cVd the COMAND
controller and press W to confirm.
X Select All Messages All Messages and press W to
confirm.
A list is shown containing all roads, areas
or regions affected by traffic reports.
Roads, areas or regions not on the route
also appear in the list.
X
To show a traffic report: select a road,
area or region and press W to confirm.
The traffic report is displayed. There may
be several traffic reports for the affected
road. You can find an example of a traffic
report here: (
Y
page 363).
X To close a report: slide XVY the COMAND
controller.
Reading out traffic reports on the route
Introduction
The read-aloud function is only available while
route guidance is active. It reads out traffic
reports affecting the current route.
You can select the following text reader
properties:
R Language (
Y
page 313)
R Text reader speed (
Y
page 312)
You can start the text reader function
manually or set it to automatic.
Starting the text reader function manually
X To switch to navigation mode: press the
Ø button.
X To show the menu: press W the COMAND
controller.
X Select Traffic Traffic by turning cVd the
COMAND controller and press W to
confirm.
X Select Read out all messages on Read out all messages on
route route and press W to confirm.
COMAND reads out the reports in
sequence.
i If there are no reports for the route, the
Read Read out out all all messages messages on on route route menu
item is shown in gray and cannot be
selected.
X
To switch off the read-aloud function:
select Cancel Cancel Read-Aloud Read-Aloud Function Function and
press W to confirm or press the 8
button.
COMAND reads out the current report and
then exits the read-aloud function.
Automatic read-aloud function
X
To switch to navigation mode: press the
Ø button.
X
To show the menu: press W the COMAND
controller.
X Select Traffic Traffic by sliding ZV and turning
cVd the COMAND controller and press
W to confirm.
X Select Read Traffic Messages Read Traffic Messages
Automatically Automatically and press W to confirm.
Depending on the previous state, switch
the option on O or off ª.
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