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Who Needs GPS? The Forgotten Story of Etak's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System


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This is simply astounding. A car navigation system that was operational 10 years before GPS came online. All geeks should read this and be amazed.

 

 

Thirty years ago, a company called Etak released the first commercially available computerized navigation system for automobiles. Spearheaded by an engineer named Stan Honey and bankrolled by Nolan Bushnell, the cofounder of Atari, the company's Navigator was so far ahead of its time that the phrase "ahead of its time" seems like an understatement.

 

Who Needs GPS? The Forgotten Story of Etak's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

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