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New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of the Crowds'

Posted by Zonk on from the you're-always-guided-using-renraku-gridguide-system dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The New York Times is running an article on Dash Express, a new navigation system for automobiles that not only receives GPS location data, but broadcasts information about its travels. Information is passed back to Dash over a cellular data network, where it is shared with other users to let them know if there are slowdowns or traffic jams on the road ahead. The real benefit of the system isn't apparent until enough units are collecting data in a given area - so Dash distributed over 2,000 prototype units to test drivers in 25 large cities."

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  1. Ob. "Big Brother" Thread by Tastecicles · · Score: 1, Troll

    This can be used to track specific individual vehicles. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on which side of PATRIOT you hang. I can see this becoming a compulsory addition to car electronics in the next couple years.

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  2. Old News by KyrBe · · Score: 0, Troll

    We've had this in various guises, both realtime updates and end of day submissions, in the UK for years. Yet again the US is slow to catch up with the rest of the world, yet this is "news". Here's a tip: US tech is not newsworthy unless it really is something new and original. Submitters and editors should try Google, and a couple of other places, before posting to the front page. Perhaps more EU reader should start submitting and become editors, then perhaps we'd see both news, and the realisation by US ciztizen that they're are no long at the leading edge.

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