lightheir wrote:
In city traffic, the Varia is more annoying than useful. Lots of beeping and dots on your display that you know are there already. It would for example suck for a commuter who rides on such roads for most of their route.I turned off the audible alerts because I'm in an urban area. But it's still very helpful in certain situations - like when you're in the bike lane with a line of cars next to you, and you're waiting for an opening to move into a left turn lane. You just wait till it clears, then check over your shoulder, instead of repeatedly doing visual checks.
Also, the dots it displays show green / orange / red for the relative closing speed of the cars.