Computers that can navigate around a city have been around since 1974!

You might think that your GPS is one of the newest and greatest innovations of the new century. You'd be partially right.Computers that can navigate around a city have been around since 1974, by using preloaded mapping data.

In 1974, the German company Siemens came up with a system they called “Programmed Driving” that could navigate a car to a destination in a city, taking into account traffic levels. This was 30 years before the release of GPS!


Programmed driving would get you to your destination faster than you think, and being around the city was easier thanks to this program, so maps were no longer needed with this program around.However, this program was never as famous as the GPS, but still it was very useful.

Just be grateful for the great technology you have right now, who would’ve ever thought that we can now carry a GPS in our own phones!

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