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- 1988 Travel Pilot - the earliest Sat Nav. Travel Pilot to be launched at a cost of £2K. Like Tom Tom, Like Garmin. The worlds first SatNav
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This wasn't the first car navigation system. That claim goes to the Honda "Electro Gyro-Cator" from 1981. The earliest car navigation systems preceeded GPS. The used a gyroscope and vehicle speed sensors (generally hall effect sensors mounted to the wheel or drive chain). They were surprisingly accurate once calibrated, although calibration could be a pain. They did not suffer from signal interference that GPS is prone to, such as multipath and urban canyon effects. The UI was basic, but the worked almost as well as today's systems despite substantially poorer CPU, limited memory and slow storage.
Everyone is laughing at this now, but imagine having this in the late 80s/ early 90s... It was a miracle! You had a digital map that showed your destination and your position on an actual screen. If I had this in a 90s car, I would have felt like a captain of a star wars ship!
i have an old system in my '97 Escort GTi, runs the maps off CD. :)
@@mobi1etone Hey Arthur! Do you remember the name of the system by any chance?
@@deniz7559 It's a 9000VNR system out of an early Mondeo. You'll also need to fit the GPS receiver aerial, easy job.
@@mobi1etone Thanks Arthur! I like retro electronic gadgets and will definitely check that out! :)
the 2,000 lbs. is over $2,000
This isn’t the earliest Sat Nav. Honda made a GPS in 1981 and offered it in their cars at that time.
Steve Neill Gps was only accurate to 100 meters back then so it would have been useless
they offered it but no one saw the point so they didn't buy it
This looks like an inertial guidance system (like the kind airplanes have), so not technically a satnav.
Not inertial. It used wheel speed sensors to gauge turning and distance traveled. It looks very similar to Etak's Navigator system from 1985. This used casette tapes instead of CD's, but still, even the monitor and maps look the same.
The first GPS in-car system came out from Mazda in 1990, so people who bought this mus have been pissed after two years, haha.
Not GPS or INS
What's the difference?
Still better than Apple Maps, I presume.
I had this in my Volvo 740 back in the days.. It's not satnav, it's wheelsensor/compas nav ;-)
£2000, thank goodness Google Maps is free now.
At the expense of being monitored, tracked & traced
Your smartphone isn't free btw.
Not using real time GPS and instead keeping track of an initial position and changes via wheel speed sensors is INSANE. This thing must've drifted quite a bit and needed recalibration often. Still impressive it even worked! Also if you ever tow your car, it must be screwed, lol
Man, I love old technology, it's insane that every new car now has a GPS, like it's conventional, we take it for granted, but back in these days it was on the cutting edge of technology.
It’s neither satellite nor INS, it’s just a combined dead reckoning system (which would never ever work for automobiles...
@Ed Anly links by any chance Ed? Regards
1:27 "do we get a prize?" XD
Its all GREEN the route should be in red
Can it speak?
Sat Nav? It will never take off!! 😁😁
that is not sat nav
non sat nav gps... given were at the whim of the us military or the russians, it seems surprising this idea wasn't pursued, would give a good self reliant closed system alternative
No - will never replace AtoZ
His steering wheel is on wrong side.
He's driving a German registered car 1:45
No it's not
That's crap.