"Sat nav" has certainly become ubiquitous since it was first introduced to the public in the mid 1990s.
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His Nissan Leaf has a sat nav-like screen which lists charging points - but it's far from comprehensive.
But he needs some sort of super sat nav, because the road map isn't working, whichever way you hold it up.
But why does Europe need its own "sat nav" system when the rest of the world uses GPS or an equivalent Russian or planned Chinese system?
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Some drivers also need a sat-nav to find well-known destinations, passengers have told the city council.
This included an increase in the number of consumers using video, maps and sat-nav tools.
"We work closely with sat-nav companies but we will certainly be following up on that, " he said.
"Some of us have experienced being sent down one-way streets the wrong way by sat-nav, " she said.
It will be sometime before general sat-nav users are able to see the benefits of Galileo, however.
The AA is set to launch a new insurance policy which uses sat-nav technology to track driver performance.
Company owner Peter Metcalfe said his driver had "relied too heavily on his sat-nav" and had been reprimanded.
When triggered, the personal alarm uses phone and sat-nav technology to warn that its wearer is in danger.
Writer Will Self is well-versed in modern technology but chooses not to get broadband, sat-nav or the latest mobile phones.
Hull Crown Court heard Aleksandras Aleksiunas, 26, had accused him and his girlfriend of stealing the sat-nav during a car journey weeks earlier.
Harratt gave Otak money, clothing, food and a sat-nav to help him get to Dover in Kent and try to leave the UK after the murders.
The company recently made headlines when shoppers on one of its Christmas trips to France were taken to Belgium after a sat-nav blunder diverted their coach off course.
Any sat-nav is going to give you errors, but this one in particular is giving us a big one that may end up in a loss of life.
By contrast, the new approach is instantaneous and practically free in terms of infrastructure - because the information the system uses comes from mobile phone and sat-nav device users directly.
Timothy Roberts QC, prosecuting, said Mr Aleksiunas believed Mr Skrinskas, of Sheffield Street, and his girlfriend Agne Jozenaite had stolen the sat-nav on a journey together to Gainsborough early in December 2011.
In Navevo's case the data will be used to flash a warning symbol on its sat-nav maps when a driver approaches a "warning zone" with a 50m (164ft) radius circle drawn around the area.
"One of the reasons we're so excited about community data is the sheer volume of it, " says Rik Temmink, vice president for product management at TeleAtlas, the digital mapping subsidiary of sat-nav manufacturer TomTom.
"It is another reminder of the need to apply some common sense when following sat-nav instructions in a rural and mountainous area such as ours, especially with the prevailing weather conditions, " said Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team member Graham O'Hanlon.
Europe believes a sat-nav system that is independent of GPS but inter-operable with it will drive a multi-billion euro industry in which receivers find their way into many more markets - from consumer mobile devices such as cell phones to safety-critical applications such as guided trains and buses.
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