Go abroad, or move
Automatic region
PlusPart of Plus
With the automatic region, the flags, the average prices, the Passbook’s map and the units on Current move to where your newest entry with a place was. Your currency, tax rules and recalls stay on the region you set.
What moves, and what stays
Set by me (the default) keeps the region where you chose it. Automatic (Plus), at the top of Settings → Region, moves the flags, the average prices (where your currency has them) and the Passbook’s map to where your newest entry with a place was (in real time, so across a time zone line too).
That entry is a fill-up, charging session, odometer reading, trip (where it ended), maintenance visit or expense, or a border crossing (the place you chose). One is placed from its own position, else the state, province or country its address ends with (outside the US, Canada and Australia, a state or region only of your own country):
- A country by its English name, its own or a short one (“Deutschland”, “PNG”).
- Its ISO code (“…, Sydney, AU”). A few codes are also a state’s or province’s elsewhere (SE, HU, NI, BY…) and may not place it: write the country’s name (“…, Stockholm, Sweden”).
- A UK postcode.
Nothing is looked up, and the form says when an address you type can’t be placed, such as “London” alone, or “3000 W Ridge Rd, Greece”, whose Greece is a town until you add its state. An entry in Crimea, Sevastopol or the Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo / Takeshima) moves nothing.
Your currency, tax rules, NRCan’s ratings and recalls stay on the region you set, so a trip abroad changes none of them.
Current follows you
The units on Current follow you, the region you set counting as home when you haven’t set a home region (Home and away, below).
During a drive
While automatic tracking follows a drive, or a trip is being recorded, the drive counts as your newest place: each time it comes into another state, province or country, the flags at the top and Driving now’s flags change together, and the welcome comes as an entry there would bring it.
It goes by the drive’s position on the maps alone. By a state line or a border, where the maps can’t be sure of the side, the flags stay on the place before until they are. Once the drive is saved, its trip takes over from the same place, with no second welcome.
Which side of the road
When that place drives on the other side of the road from home (the region you set, where you live now, else your home region), the Dash says so (“Driving is on the left in Japan, unlike home.”). Got it puts the note away until you’ve been somewhere else.