Satellite navigation still in search of perfection
The moment you start loving your newly acquired gadget, for reasons of your own, new and better technology takes over to dilute the effect. Apparently, it holds true for almost everything in our hands including the ubiquitous global positioning devices.
Victor Keegan here raises a very interesting point that none of the satellite navigator presently available caters to all our needs lacking in one respect or the other. Even the famous CoPilot, from ALK Technologies is not without faults, as Victor himself tasted the bad experience where the voice guide sometimes gave different instructions from the map on the screen. Today we need compact models, preferably squeezed in our mobile phones and PDAs.
An ideal GPS system must be impeccable in delivering the requiered information and that too at the right time. Though they are getting better and better, doesn't matter at snail's pace, it is suggestive to wait for a while instead of landing with some crap.
Thanks: Victor Keegan
Via: The Guardian
