Word: dashboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick and Cadillac vehicles. One, the Pontiac Banshee, resembles a spaceship on wheels, with a canopy top that opens like a jet fighter's. Instead of a rearview mirror, the Banshee has a TV camera in the back of the car that feeds a picture to a dashboard monitor...
Lovedart takes third place, after the Tidal Waves, and hands the $75 check to his fiancee for their wedding fund. (They're a lip-sync couple. They met on the circuit, and their courtship included a lip-sync duet of Paradise by the Dashboard Light, which could loosely be described as a love song.) Asked about his future, Lovedart concedes that he's thought about putting together a portfolio and taking it to an agent. "But I don't know how I would handle the success." What he means is that he's already been on television...
...background as the man drives out of the cloud smiling and continues his journey. The smoke dissipates behind him, revealing a bloody mess in his wake. Camera swings into his unscathed car. He is patting the special paper-clip--I mean "Safety Clip"--that hangs attractively from his dashboard. A voice-over ends the commercial...
...Menlo Park, Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...
...devices will fare in the marketplace remains to be seen. Their current price tags will certainly limit sales: Navigator sells for $1,395, and the DriverGuide is expected to cost about $1,000. Toyota already offers a computerized dashboard map on an expensive model sold only in Japan, but while U.S. automakers are testing the devices, none have plans to offer them as options before the early 1990s...