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Article: Navigation Systems Seriously Undermine Road Safety.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- January 9, 2008
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The Hague, January 09 (PPI) : Using a new research method, the Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen (Navigation Systems Research Foundation) has discovered why navigation systems cannot find ring roads in cities. Software errors are the cause. The Foundation predicts a catastrophic development if the authorities do not intervene: more traffic accidents and casualties, and side roads becoming jammed with volumes of traffic for which they were not designed.Almost none of the navigation systems tested take sufficient account of the hierarchy in the road network. As a result, motorists are unnecessarily being turned into kid killers by being sent through designated ...