31 Jan 2024, 16:44 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Blindly trusting GPS navigation once again has serious consequences, as a driver went off a ramp and over a median as he was following the sat-nav 26 ...

In countries like France and Cyprus, sat-navs are prohibited and can lead to fines as high as €1,500 (£1,275) as they make drivers aware of speed cameras.

Drivers aged 25 to 34 are the most likely to use sat-nav to get around, with about 80 percent of respondents saying they would never use any other method. Older drivers are more traditional, it ...

Professor Last recalled the New Year's Day failure of a single satellite in 2004 and how it wreaked havoc with sat-nav readings. "Satellite failures, though dramatic, are not the main problem," he ...

Google and Apple have agreed to amend their audio prompts after a double fatal crash appeared to have been caused by incorrect directions from a sat-nav. A coroner warned tech companies, including ...

This little black box isn't, in itself, a sat-nav unit. It's simpler yet smarter than that. It's actually a heads-up display (HUD) unit that projects directions into your line of vision.

A double fatal crash caused by incorrect audio directions from a sat-nav has prompted a coroner to warn tech companies - including Apple and Google - of a risk of future deaths. Tracey Haybittle ...

A multi-million pound sat-nav project aims to stop lorries and other vehicles getting stuck in narrow lanes and under low-lying bridges on UK routes. Ordnance Survey is creating a database that ...