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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Every day Mr. Dutschke would put a new sign up only to find it removed, until one early morning Mr. Dutschke waited in his car near the location to catch the perpetrator in the act.
What we're seeing on the ground near Kalak today, which is a couple of hours away by car from my location, is a further degradation of Iraq's front line defenses around one of two key northern cities, Mosul.
The keys are hidden in the car in a specific location that borrowers only know.
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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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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The Associated Press examined the footage to verify its authenticity, cross-referencing images from the scene, aerial shots, the location of a car behind the alleged attacker and the appearance of a body and a car in the background.
More than 1 million Ford drivers will immediately be able to share their location directly from their car.
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Indeed, E Ink has identified 700 types of products that could use its technology, including power tools (which could show the amount of power remaining) and car key readers (which could report such details as the amount of gas left in a car and the vehicle's location in a parking lot).
When animals are rescued, they are taken to a dry location, like the central car park, and registered so the authorities know who they belong to, and where they came from.
Late Monday or early Tuesday, Marin's adult son received a delayed e-mail from his father "telling him that if things don't go good in court, Marin's wills are in place and his car can be found at a Mesa location, " Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told reporters.
In theory, hackers could then sell the car to a thief, giving them its location and unlocking it remotely.
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The new Last Mile function automatically saves the location of the user's car when continuing by foot, making it easy to find it on the way back.
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Enabling access to this function through BMW Apps allows drivers to use the car's familiar controls to share their location and arrival time while en route, without the dangers of picking up their phone.
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Dutch thinks the real selling point is Networkcar's global positioning system, which allows owners to locate a stolen vehicle or even monitor the location and performance of the family car using a Web site.
The second incident saw the same car set on fire while parked at the same location at about 22:10 on 5 November.
Well, PocketNow got their hand on the top-end iCN 750 in-car navigation system to see just how useful downloading location-mapped pictures can be.
If preferred, the owner also can take pictures of the surrounding area for reference, write a reminder note, email his or her location and set an alarm if the car is parked at a meter.
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From within the car, Kia owners will benefit from Google Places, which will provide POI and destination resources such as a dealership location, and Google Maps, which will provide directions to virtually anywhere and everywhere a car can travel.
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Parking Minder: If the driver happens to forget where they parked the car, the Parking Minder function helps find it by sending the location of the vehicle to the driver's phone.
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She fell to her death from the city centre car park just a week after having been talked down from the same location.
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.
Highlight the price, location, number of bedrooms and amenities, like a three-car garage, granite countertops or a finished basement.
Ford also used the keynote to announce My Ford Mobile, a smartphone application that links up with the computer in Focus Electric, providing a information like how far the car will drive on its current charge, individual driving trends, and the location of nearby charging stations.
On 6 June, Hertz became the first major rental car company to offer e-bikes, stocking a dozen at its Marble Arch location.
The company connects riders and drivers through a smartphone app, which identifies your location, shows you nearby cars and sends you a text message when your car arrives.
Zipcar currently estimates more than 10 million drivers within a 10 minutes distance of a Zipcar location, indicating the potential of much greater penetration levels as the popularity of car sharing rises.
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But mapping mobile phone users' general movements could help retailers make strategic decisions on store location and opening times, the company believes, and help town councils plan car parking facilities and manage public events.
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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