Tag: satnav

  • Head-up display and hands free texting

    Do you think this is a safe idea? Navdy is pre-selling their head-up display (HUD) for satnav and communications. With this, you can now text ‘safely’ while you are driving, but I think this will be a distraction to drivers. Comment below with your opinion. It does look a good piece of technology though. I…

  • Why your next car will have an IP address

    One trend that has become very clear at this year’s CES is that the Internet is slowly making its way into our cars. Of course, you can already browse the Net and play music from Pandora through your smartphone, but the next generation of cars – and especially electric cars – are making the Internet…

  • UK No1 for speed cameras

    According to my satnav information there are more speed cameras in the UK than France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Portugal combined! Here is the list of the number of cameras by country: Austria  410 Belgium  1202 Spain  606 Finland  779 France  1235 United Kingdom  4256 Italy  1095 Luxembourg  2 Netherlands  1659 Norway  347 Portugal  40…

  • Satnav market research

    Just as I was saying that ‘compulsory satnav in cars would solve more jams than government initiatives’ two things happened. Firstly my wife phoned up to say she was stuck in a non-moving jam in Hammersmith…and she was using satnav. Secondly I saw page on the AA website that seemed to support my thoughts: What…