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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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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.
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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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It protects its highly portable assets with a GPS system, which tracks the location of each car and transmits it back to head office using the mobile-phone network.
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Take GPS, add Bluetooth, season to taste you've got yourself a fine car navigation system that gets friendly with your phone to provide both voice and data connectivity.
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It combines a conventional global positioning system (GPS) signal with those of other sensors - accelerometers and gyroscopes - to pinpoint a car's location to within 2m (6ft 6in).
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