Smart Cars, Speaks of the TravTek navigationsystem installed in Oldsmobile Toronados

Answer A : The TravTek navigationsystem is installed in 100 Oldsmobile Toronados, the visual part of the system is a computer monitor. Through detailed colour maps, it leads the driver through the town. The map changes all the time, cause a computer connected to a navigation-satellite, and with a magnetic compass installed, calculates the fastest or easiest way to your destination. When yellow circles appear in a particular place on the screen, it means that there is …

…not mentioned in the text, is that the sattelite reciever and the computer needs a lot of space in the car. I have seen one, and it occupies most of the trunk in an ordinary car. Bottom line: I consider the smart-car a great development for nations such as USA, they will have great advantages of them, but for smaller countries as Denmark I find that there are other things who offers a better solution.