Posted 15 weeks ago

General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University today announced a renewal of their joint efforts to push forward the development of autonomous driving (click here for the press release). With considerab

Posted 19 weeks ago

Telematics Detroit took place from 20 till 23 May in Novi, Michigan. It has now become the default North American telematics event from which no self-respecting North American telematics company can

Posted 26 weeks ago

From a navigation perspective, the most important event at CTIA was probably Mio showcasing their connected PND prototype which will be available in the second half of 2008. During CTIA Mio Technology

Posted 30 weeks ago

Navigation was one of the main themes of CeBIT 2008 with all major navigation players concentrated in two halls. While most companies now prefer to reserve their major product announcements for the Mo

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Posted 34 weeks ago

Pedestrian navigation has been talked about for a long time. Despite the fact that many navigation solutions did include a pedestrian mode setting, none of these were worthy of that name. This has now

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Posted 35 weeks ago

While many PND vendors such as TomTom, Magellan, Mio, Dash and Mobile Devices are focusing on connected Personal Navigation Devices, Garmin has chosen the different route of developing a handset with

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Posted 41 weeks ago

Nissan recently announced that its new Fuga model for the Japanese market will feature an adaptive cruise control option that links to its navigation system. This is another step towards automated dri

Posted 43 weeks ago

December 4th and 5th were the two days of Navigation & Location 2007, sponsored by Telematics Update. Our colleagues at Telematics Update must be quite pleased, as there was standing-room-only atte

Posted 43 weeks ago

Two navigation system suppliers have been kind enough to provide me with demonstrator units, and I won t denigrate their desire to improve by naming them here. But I will use them as an example o

Posted 46 weeks ago

The Growing Galileo conference took place in Brussels on 14 and 15 November, organized by the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) bringing together the whole ecosystem of Europe s satellite te