— -- Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help ...

Priya Narasimhan, a football fan in Pittsburgh, wants to help referees make the right call. Her experiment: embed GPS units and accelerometers into football equipment to keep track of where the ball ...

Modern cars surround drivers with digital certainty, yet one of the most basic numbers on the dashboard is quietly biased in ...

It's pretty well established that car speedometers are mildly inaccurate. However, if you're wondering whether GPS is any ...

While state-of-the-art navigation has become a must-have these days, not everybody is a big fan of Google Maps, so stand-alone GPS units like those from Garmin still have a very successful niche of ...

These days, driving is rarely as simple as going from Point A to Point B — but it can be. With millions of other cars on the road and countless miles available to travel, the last thing you want to be ...

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I must say I’m not a fan of GPS units. My smartphone fitted with Google Maps usually does all the job and there’s no need to carry an additional device to look after during my ride. However, there are ...

Which handheld Garmin GPS is best? Garmin is one of the leading manufacturers of GPS units for automobiles, and is internationally renowned for the quality of their consumer electronics. Whether you ...

Before hunting GPS units were available, outdoors people learned lessons in humility. Some of the best hunters, hikers, and anglers I know tell stories about tailing big bulls and bucks over one ridge ...