Patent ID: 7269504

Claim:
A system for guiding a driver of a vehicle from a starting point to a destination point, the system comprising: a navigation unit that is capable of selecting a route between the starting point and the destination point, the navigation unit further capable of generating a plurality of navigation cues to guide the driver along the selected route wherein each of the plurality of navigation cues include a data packet that comprises a location of a maneuver and an instruction for the maneuver; a positioning unit that is capable of determining a position of the vehicle; a controller connected to the navigation unit for receiving the navigation cues and connected to the positioning unit for receiving the position of the vehicle, the controller having an urgency calculator that is capable of assigning a level of urgency to the navigation cues received from the navigation unit based on the position of the vehicle from the positioning unit and the location of the maneuver in the data packet; and a user interface that presents the navigation cues to the driver based on the level of urgency of the navigation cue.