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Article: New generation of navigators are raring to go
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 27, 2003
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On-board navigational systems eliminate the need for paper maps,
provide instant vehicle location and can determine routes with a
minimum of information. And they're getting better and better.
The systems, which utilize Global Positioning System satellites,
first appeared on passenger cars in the mid-'90s. Acura was the first
manufacturer to bring the technology to the United States: a
navigational system for the California market on the 1996 model-year
RL.
BMW collaborated with Philips Electronics in the Netherlands on
its first nav- igational system, ntroduced in Europe in 1995. That
system came to the United States a year later as an option on the