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Telematics Gets a Warm Reception from UK Fleets
2014-07-06 22:44:39| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
By Mike Sheldrick, Senior Editor "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" BuzzFeed recently ran a cute item: 12 Car Advances That Wouldve Freaked Out People in the Eighties.That might be an exaggeration. But astounded and amazed would not. I remember showing Dave Cole, head of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Michigan, an Etak navigation system in late 80s. It included map data and restaurants for Detroit and Ann Arbor. This was pre-GPS, by the way. Thats amazing, he said, as we found a restaurant (by cuisine) and quickly calculated a route. As a hard-nosed engineer and the son of Ed Cole, a former GM president, he was a man not easily impressed. Full disclosure: a Silicon Graphics workstation was in the trunk. It was early days for navigation. So early that the neologism, telematics, had not even been invented. Now that telematics has switched into overdrive, its not so hard to imagine that many of us will be freaked out in just a few years. In other words, You aint seen nothin yet. READ MORE The Article Telematics Gets a Warm Reception from UK Fleets appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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