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Hello Maurice - 

CA>> Might be a good way for yuppies to find out if they
CA>> _really_ own a "sport UTILITY vehicle" or not. :-) 

MK> I thought it was a Cadillac. 

Sorry, I was thinking of _all_ GPS units out there and your
reference to the unused 'utility vehicle' aspects of SUVs. 

CA>> I think the radio/DVD players still rank highest in causes
CA>> of driver inattention caused accidents. 

MK> So then my unit would increase safety on the road seeing it
MK> has no CD/DVD-ROM. And here I thought I was only being
MK> power conservative. Bonus! 

A whack upside their heads would also qualify as "increasing
safety" but we aren't allowed to do that. 

MK>>> Mind you I've seen, and sheepishly admit to doing in the
MK>>> past, maps unfolded by drivers trying to figure out where
MK>>> the heck they are and where they are going, which takes
MK>>> the attention away from what should be the top priority
MK>>> at that moment. 

CA>> Wife did that on a trip to Wisconsin and we got pulled
CA>> over by the state police. :-\ 

MK> How much did that end up costing? Perhaps I could promote
MK> the unit as a cost saving device. 

Because I was from Michigan I got a written warning (looks like
a ticket but no fine). 

CA>> Mercedes has something similar I think? 

MK> I believe so. I can't afford one of those either. :-/ 

CA>> I've thought more of these things should be turned to face
CA>> the passenger side of the vehicle with just a 'scan'
CA>> button for the radio mounted on the steering wheel. I
CA>> think one American car I was in not long ago does have
CA>> radio controls on the steering wheel 'spokes'? 

MK> Could be. Recently I have only seen these on boats. My
MK> personal experience with GPS was surveying many, many years
MK> ago when GPS was in it's infancy. Trimble lent the
MK> University of Saskatchewan one to test out for Lithoprobe
MK> which was a geophysical survey to map the continental crust
MK> of North America, although I think there was a European
MK> version as well (don't quote me on that). It was
MK> interesting but limited by the lack of satellites. No
MK> moving maps that is for sure. To my knowledge we were the
MK> first to do anything like this but if not then we definetly
MK> were close to being first. That particular survey was in
MK> Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 

So you wandered along the shoreline recording long/lat
readings? Was this in a boat? 

MK> Years later I wired a marine DGPS into a laptop which found
MK> it's way down to Houston Texas. No moving maps but perhaps
MK> it does now. I really ought find out if it still works.
MK> Probably the reciever and antenna but I have doubts about
MK> the laptop. The OS was Linux, Slackware to be more precise,
MK> 3.4 if I remember correctly. It was fun but  I'd really
MK> like to try something different. 

The Larch? 

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