Car navigation system
Navegador de automóvil (Electro Gyrocator, Etak, Mazda GPS)
- Date
- 1981-1990 · confidence medium
- Place
- Honda, Tokyo, Japan (1981); Etak, Sunnyvale, California (digital map, 1985); Mazda (GPS, 1990)
- Credited to
- Honda (Electro Gyrocator, inertial); Stan Honey (Etak, digital maps); Mazda and Pioneer (first factory-fitted GPS)
- People
- 👤 Stan Honey1955–
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A system that shows a car's position on a digital map, first using a gyroscope and later GPS. It led to Google Maps and the disappearance of the paper map.
What it led to
- Google Maps and mobile navigation
- The delivery and app-based transport economy
- Digital cartography as infrastructure and a source of data
Built on
- Dijkstra shortest path algorithm1956
- Liquid-crystal display (LCD)1964-1971
- Global Positioning System (GPS)1978-1995
- digital cartography
- LCD screen