What is the future of GPS and navigational devices?
As navigation hardware and software improves, there’s a lot to look forward to. The latest GPS chips promise a future of instant-lock GPS systems that can tell you where you are almost instantly.
‘Real Time Two Way’ (RTTW) also known as connected devices, will allow users to both provide and receive content dynamically, using the mobile phone network. This will include receiving traffic incident data as accidents occur. Next stop is ‘predictive’ traffic flows and real-time speed camera locations based on data provided by the vehicle users themselves.
GPS tourism is taking off in many countries, with full travel guides available that let your GPS guide you along the way.
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are currently in the evolutionary planning stages. ADAS will enable not only route guidance, but also cruise control, advice on when to change lanes (or warnings if you’re doing so without realising it), collision warning systems to prevent accidents and even the potential ability to detect if your driving patterns indicate that you’re falling asleep. ADAS will first hit the market in the larger, luxury in-dash GPS devices found in many premium vehicles, with some elements of the technology likely to become available in portable devices.
