Even without GPS you can stay oriented and drive confidently on unfamiliar highways and byways to get where you're going.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified ...

The inaccuracy of the speedometers used by most vehicles, even those in cars with the coolest gauge clusters, is well known. The good news is that most speedometers report speeds higher than the ...

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...

Our everyday GPS struggles in “urban canyons,” where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. NTNU scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections ...

The average car speedometer may be off by a few mph There are several GPS and 3rd party apps that show your actual speed The speedometer, of course, tells you how fast or slow your car is moving when ...

As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...

In the early days of motoring, there was no nationwide speed limit. This meant that drivers could theoretically reach very high speeds on certain public roads without worrying about tickets. However, ...

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