It does this by accelerating to the speed set for the taxiway, using its inbuilt GPS map system.
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The iPhone has a larger screen than BlackBerry, a better (virtual) keyboard, a GPS map, and a unique configuration of Internet, phone, iPod, and calendar tools.
Love is not like your daughter's medical career with a blueprint to follow, or like a GPS map that can calculate the distance between Addis and Accra.
Super Cruise is designed to ease the driver's workload on the freeway, in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips by relying on a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data.
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The solution involves a pretty major change to the GPS map industry, including how map changes are made and published, but Toyota seems to have its hand in enough of the process to make it happen.
The key to delivering semi-autonomous capability will be the integration of lane- centering technology that relies on forward-looking cameras to detect lane markings and GPS map data to detect curves and other road characteristics, said John Capp, General Motors director of Global Active Safety Electronics and Innovation.
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For instance, on a road trip, travelers are confident that a GPS and map will guide them to the destination.
Dallas Fort Worth was one of the first airports to create a mobile app that can help users find a parking space, check out the nearest concessions, and use GPS to map the closest stores and food outlets.
He also now carries his own Global Positioning System (GPS) to map locations -- both familiar and obscure -- that he visits for stories.
For drivers in unfamiliar areas, any site chosen can be plotted on a map using GPS, and maps can be changed to satellite, hybrid or terrain views.
The GPS data allowed a map to be made of the routes taken and the heart-rate measurements provided an estimate of the amount of energy expended during their travels.
Maybe you use a traditional map or a GPS to chart out your course.
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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While GPS makers have been challenged by map applications on smartphones for sometime, more recent applications include 3D mapping and turn-by-turn directions.
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Skyhook has amassed a database of 50 billion scanned records of Wi-Fi, cellular tower and GPS signals--a "map" of locations that captures 80% of the U.S. population.
If you get out of range, a GPS function allows you to track your items on a map.
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Engineers at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (Grasp) Laboratory at Pennsylvania University have developed ways to make small quadrotor robots fly in formation, co-operate and map their surroundings without global positioning systems (GPS) .
We tested the device indoors -- located near a window, it picked up a GPS signal easily, and transmitted its location to a map within the iOS app even as we walked 100 or so feet away, past several walls.
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If GPS bracelets become widespread, I hope someone develops a smartphone map app that lets you see all the bracelet-wearing criminals in your area.
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Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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The radio transmits a plane's speed, heading, altitude and GPS coordinates to all other planes similarly equipped, allowing each to map the traffic around it.
If you get out of the range of the GPS tracking system, it will help locate your item on a map with its unique last-seen map pin-drop feature.
After testing a crude version of their technology in 2007 on the Lincoln Park Municipal Course in San Francisco using GPS devices and HD cameras, the prototype proved that they could accurately map terrain and create a realistic game experience.
Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.
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If you're one of the lucky folks who live in or around the yellow area pictured on the map (it's a map of the upper 48 United States), grab the closest gadget with GPS, your EV-DO-sportin' laptop, and the keys to your pickup, 'cause money is literally falling out of the sky all around you 24-hours-a-day.
Away from device sales, the company's location and commerce department had a difficult quarter, but the sale of map content licenses (to companies like Amazon) offset the dwindling popularity of standalone GPS units.
From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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Even today in the world of satellite based GPS and the fairly exact positioning information it can provide, it is always best to have a paper chart or map and the needed tools in case your electronic ones fail so you are not left stranded and unable to find your way home.
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