Toyota and General Motors are among a growing list of firms offering in-car navigation systems.
Seven out of ten of the in-dash car navigation systems in Western Europe and the U.S. use Navteq.
Bluetooth GPS receivers turn handhelds into car navigation systems and factory-installed hands-free systems continue to slowly march their way into vehicles.
While this may be sufficient for in-car navigation systems, it would not be suitable for automated vehicles, which are currently being developed by the likes of Google.
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Eventually, when processors and memory are cheap enough, these 3-D cityscapes will make it onto in-car navigation systems, helping drivers understand their locations by displaying landmarks around them.
Cheaper cell phone apps and bigger-screened, in-dash car navigation systems are posing a challenge to the single-purpose portable gadgets, even though prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars in the past several years.
Since electronics firms have piled into digital video discs, camcorders and car-navigation systems, margins have been crushed by overcapacity.
Garmin's automotive OEM group utilizes the company's long-standing experience in interface and hardware design from its automotive, avionics and marine segments to develop innovative in-car navigation, telematics and infotainment systems.
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Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
The QNX Neutrino RTOS is used by the world's best-known automotive brands to bring high levels of performance, reliability, and upgradeability to hands-free systems, digital instrument clusters, multimedia head units, connectivity modules, 3D navigation systems, and other in-car infotainment products.
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For an ultraluxury car, the Bentley has one of the slowest, least usable navigation systems extant.
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The framework extracts meaning from the driver's spoken words, enabling in-car systems to create calendar appointments, dictate email or text messages, set complex navigation destinations, and even perform general Internet searches.
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