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	News: Is GPS a Kid Killer? No it's not April although you may wonder having read the headline grabbing results of a report from Dutch research organisation Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen. They claim that poor routing on devices is putting more cars in the path of children in school and residential zones in unfamiliar areas. They compared 13 different 'telephone navigators' and their route plotting algorithms to see which took into consideration the avoidance of school and residential areas. Of all the devices tested, apparently only one, Nav4All (a Dutch application), was able to calculate a route that avoided these areas. Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen has no apparent connections with Nav4All but it is important to point out that Holland has many residential areas where pedestrians have right of way and where cars should only be used for access. Navigation systems that use such areas as viable through routes can cause problems and may not in fact reflect accurate transit times but quite how they can be blamed as the cause of increased traffic accidents and casualty rates isn't explained. I suspect this report has been conceived as a headline grabber in the same vein as those that blame 4x4's for climate change and everything else. Read the full report here.... Click here to discuss... Posted on Wednesday, January 09 @ 09:39:37 UTC by Darren Griffin


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