The Business — January 2007
Pay As You Drive Insurance Gets Brit Road Test; Philips Exits PND Market before Entry; Driving for Dollars: Urban Challenge Purse Put at $3.5 million read more
Pay As You Drive Insurance Gets Brit Road Test; Philips Exits PND Market before Entry; Driving for Dollars: Urban Challenge Purse Put at $3.5 million read more
Looking out the window during a long car trip becomes an interactive adventure with a new GPS-based game developed by The Interactive Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The Backseat Playground uses GPS to turn passing sights such as forests, buildings, and rivers into locations for in-game characters and events, reports New Scientist magazine. Backseat Playground consists of a GPS receiver, a handheld computer, and headphones connected to a laptop in the trunk of the car. read more
This update to a seminal article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy measures. As the driving forces of positioning and navigation change from survey and precision guidance to location-based services, E911, and so on, some accuracy measures have fallen out of common usage, while others have blossomed. The analysis changes further when the constellation expands to ombinations of GPS, SBAS, Galileo, and GLONASS. Software scripts, provided online, help bridge the gap between theory and reality. read more
The magazine has not carried much GLONASS news in recent months, yet we continue to cover Galileo and we devoted several pages to Beidou in December. In all three cases, we find an absence of real news. read more
In your August 2006 issue, you raised the question: Who was first with GPS? read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award $2 million, $1 million, and $500,000 awards to the top three robotic finishers who complete its new Urban Challenge course in November 2007. read more
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