Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones 151
cartechboy writes "We've all been there. You're relying on your vehicle's built-in navigation system to get to that meeting downtown, but then suddenly the car loses the satellite signal due to the concrete skyscraper canyon you're in--and you're about to be late. Swiss semiconductor manufacturer U-Blox thinks it has the solution with 3D Automotive Dead Reckoning, or 3D ADR for short. It's a new navigation chip that uses the vehicle's built-in sensors to track speed, horizontal movement, and elevation. The 3D ADR system measures movement in three dimensions, letting the navigation system can keep track of the vehicle's location even when it loses its connection to GPS satellites. Imagine never having to see your navigation screen saying connection lost again. In an age where our phones have accelerometers and compasses, it's amazing your car is still trying to catch up, right?"
Re:I reckon either Slashdot or Beta is dead (Score:2, Insightful)
Don't forget nntp://comp.misc [comp.misc] on Usenet
(although I doubt there are any modern browsers that support the nntp:// [nntp] protocol* anymore so you will have to join mainly by downloading a free usenet client, sign up to eternal-september.org and adding comp.misc to your subscribed newsgroup list)
Still, if people are willing to use old school IRC then Usenet isn't much worse ;-)
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