Release notes

Pelican 5.1

Cameras on the map, drag-and-drop widgets, and dashboards

Cameras on the map

See speed cameras, red light cameras, license plate readers, surveillance cameras and other fixtures on the map, both when navigating and cruising.

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Drag and drop layouts

Design the layout you want with intuitive gestures.

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Head unit mode

No CarPlay? Flip your phone sideways from to enter head unit mode.

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Watch your speed

Stay aware of your speed and the road's speed limits, including conditional limits such as school zones. The speed gauge lets you tune how it reacts to your speed.

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Design your map

Pelican exposes many knobs, sliders, and toggles to help you design the map that meets your needs.

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Search

Search built for the driver. Pelican uses your driving history, pinned favorites, and contextual cues to present you the most relevant search results wherever you are.

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Voice search

Say where you want to go with a voice search engine that can learn from how it hears you.

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Signs along the route

Pelican draws stop signs, traffic lights, yield signs, speed bumps and red light cameras on the route ahead of you.

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Personalization

Customize Pelican to your needs.

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Scout reports

Share hazards, closures, accidents, police and more with Scout reports, and see the reports of the drivers ahead of you.

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Pelican OBD

Your car generates millions of datapoints on every drive. Pelican helps you capture this data over time with an OBD scanner.

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Dashboards

New

Dashboards are a new widget surface that uses a pegboard layout, meaning you can place widgets anywhere on the screen. You can create separate dashboards for portrait and landscape.

Home and work

New

You can now tag a home and work location in the new address book.

Look Around a place before you go

New

Place sheets now open with street-level imagery when available.

OBD and your car

Improved
  • Pelican can now observe CAN responses and optimize the conversation for up to 2x throughput.
  • Fixed bug where a scanner Pelican had given up on kept reconnecting and dropping every few seconds for as long as it stayed powered and in range.
  • Fixed bug where a Seat Ibiza decoded as an Arona.

Improved

Improved
  • Pelican now tells you when an App Store payment for your membership is failing, while there's still time to fix it.
  • Diagnostic traces now let you choose the attachments to include.
  • The Map tab opens on the map now, rather than on a page asking you to turn trip logging on.

Map and CarPlay fixes

Fixed
  • Fixed bug where alternate routes weren't being shown.
  • Fixed bug where dropped pins along a residential street would all report the same address.
  • Fixed bug where unrestricted stretches of German Autobahn would show 255 as their speed limit.
  • Fixed bug where the maneuver arrow disappeared into CarPlay's dashboard card, which can be light while the main screen is dark.
  • Fixed bug where CarPlay's guidance panel could draw white text on a near-white background.

Bug fixes

Fixed
  • Fixed bug where leaving Trip logging settings and opening The Danger Zone would hang the app.
  • Fixed bug where Pelican was failing to sync car data to Apple Watches via iCloud sync.
  • Fixed bug where the Journeys car picker listed cars in a different order on every launch.
  • Fixed bug where a stop at a red light could be recorded as a walk, splitting one drive into two trips.
  • Fixed bug where long answers in Guess the Car caused incorrect layouts.
  • Fixed bug where Pelican would crash when the diagnostic trace db failed to open.