If your travel plans for Thanksgiving involve sitting behind the wheel for a few hours until you get to your destination, there are still a few things you should do before you leave to make sure that you get to your destination quickly and safely.
MIT's AIDA GPS Navigator Will Dazzle You with Information and then…
MIT's last AIDA driving concept seemed dubious enough—a robotic backseat driver who'd give you navigational (and emotional!) feedback. Still, annoying at worse. But 2.0, amazing as it seems, looks like it would amaze you into a flaming wreck.
Survey: Most Arguments In Car Are Over Directions
Survey says: Most car arguments are over directions. (Shut up, honey! We're not lost!) [NYT]
Tracking the Mappers: Navigation Companies Video the World's Streets
Companies that supply imagery to nav-system providers are in a race to add reality to the mix. Okay, not so much a race as a really long, boring drive around the world, covering every single street. One Dutch firm is sending out an assault force of camera-strapped vans into the wilds of Europe to too just that, and…
I Drive Past Your House: Windows Live Local in Beta
Visitors to the Montreal Expo '67 were probably led to believe something like Windows Live Local would be up and running by, oh around 1978. But the service, which provides a virtual driver's eye perspective of city maps, is just recently in Beta testing. Only parts of Seattle and San Francisco are covered, and that…
