Garmin witchcraft

[Dbag101]

I’ve got a Garmin edge 1040 solar. On a ride, it often flags up warnings about various stuff. Today it flashed a warning, as I was riding through a park. It said “animal in proximity”. There was a guy walking his dog just ahead of me. How did it know? Did the dog have a gps tracker, was it a cyborg dog? Was it aliens? I really don’t know how the Garmin knew.

[Dracoro]

Because another garmin user flagged on their device the presence of a dog.

[Dbag101]

Dracoro said:

Because another garmin user flagged on their device the presence of a dog.

That works. When I got home it asked if the information was correct or not. There’s a database of info supplied by users, on the fly then? That’s another question, how do you do that?

[gmackay2]

my 1040 comes up with pothole warnings and gives you the option to tick yes or no if the pot hole is still a problem when riding along. To submit info on the fly.

[SoliD]

Not sure how live they are, but if you're riding through the park the likelihood of a dog being there is high so it could be from any number of previous days/weeks.