The Pioneer stereo also plays music and has other functions, making it somewhat different from stand-alone car GPS systems.
We may no longer have to lump car GPS units into the same "close is good enough" category as horseshoes and hand grenades.
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Participants learned that the firm Garmin had adopted a sequential naming approach for the first five generations of its in-car GPS receiver, from RoadRunner 610 to RoadRunner 650.
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In-car GPS developers have long had to wrestle with the urban canyon effect that blocks or bounces signals downtown: they often have to make best guesses for accuracy when they can't count on cellular or WiFi triangulation to pick up the slack, like a smartphone would.
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The menu provides access to the world of in-car multimedia, GPS TomTom LIVE navigation, the R-LINK Store, etc.
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An affective GPS car-navigation device would respond with a soothing voice when it detects a driver is stressed.
TuneIn now will suggest related stations and Glympse, a location sharing app, will automatically pull your destination from the car's GPS. Overall the data that powers the apps is still pulled down by the phone, so watch those data caps, but without a doubt this is a far safer way of using apps than actually picking up your phone.
Of course, Ford also has other ideas for the technology like a car which automatically checks in to Foursquare using the GPS data from the car or an app which your vocal musings about certain locations on the road to be recorded and tagged to that location on an online map.
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Speaking of GPS, car systems like TomTom let you communicate and navigate together, if you are running a caravan of cars on your vacation.
My car, outfitted with a GPS position finder and an off-the-shelf wireless local area network (WLAN) communication system, was tipped off by another car carrying the same gear.
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How can you tell if your car is bugged or tracked with GPS?
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Courts are torn on whether automating the process of tailing people by slapping a GPS tracker on their car presents a privacy concern.
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Lexus will have a sensor-loaded car that combines artificial intelligence software, GPS and roof-mounted lasers to navigate streets.
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Bluetooth GPS receivers turn handhelds into car navigation systems and factory-installed hands-free systems continue to slowly march their way into vehicles.
Using the taxi's GPS, authorities determined the car traveled over the George Washington Bridge and notified police agencies in New Jersey.
Nokia also debuted two in-car navigation devices this year and a GPS accessory that turns any Bluetooth phone into a personal navigator.
He compares the software to a GPS device used in a car: It's helpful as a guide, but the driver still needs to look out the window.
When the car is put into reverse, the GPS navigator will switch from map to rear-view mode, enabling drivers to view what is below the rear window.
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Concocting an "in-car gaming system" that utilizes a GPS receiver, handheld computer, headphones, and a laptop in the trunk of the whip, the Backseat Playground would eventually turn real world "sights, attractions, and locations" into in-game characters and events for the lucky passenger(s).
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My GPS on my four year old car was not re-routing me.
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For evidence of the creepy potential of social media monitoring, look no further than a story last week in which 20-year-old Arab American Yasir Afifi found a GPS tracking device attached to his car, posted a picture online, and promptly received a visit from FBI agents asking for him to give it back.
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The startup provides car owners with a small Wi-fi and GPS-enabled device in their cars.
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They should also remember to bring along a GPS-equipped smartphone (and its car charger) to help them find their way across this massive city.
Magnets inside mobile phone cases and GPS devices and also the metal in car keys and under-wired bras could affect compass needles, the MCofS warned.
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The first few drops hit the windshield of our rented 4X4 while we sat in the Dollar Rent A Car lot earlier that afternoon, waiting for the GPS to finally consummate its advances with a satellite.
Separately, the court agreed to decide whether the police can covertly install a GPS tracking device on a suspect's car without a warrant.
The data from these is combined with that from a conventional GPS unit to pinpoint a location of a car to within 2m in cities.
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Its report suggested every car should be fitted with a Global Positioning System (GPS), which measures its distance from three or more satellites, and using triangulation, can pinpoint the position of a car within five or 10 metres.
According to a story in the Boston Globe, the victim told police he left his cell phone in the car, which could be tracked, and he also told police that his car could also be tracked using the Mercedes-Benz GPS system.
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