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Police officers handed out literature at MBTA stations reminding people to put away valuables such as GPS navigation devices and to wipe the mounting marks left by these devices off their windshields after...
...mobile application—which is available for download for several smartphones, including the iPhone—incorporates an interactive video game aspect. Application users earn points by visiting different locations featured on foursquare. When a user arrives at a venue, the application’s GPS recognizes the location and prompts users to “check-in”, earning points for the user...
...what will we learn 10 years later? Conspiracy theorists, notes Wired magazine, worry that Census workers equipped with GPS devices rather than paper maps to pinpoint each housing unit will enable the New World Order to "launch Predator Drone missile attacks ... against a long list of undesirables" in the U.S. or help President Obama cede authority to the U.N. Or maybe we'll just discover that there are now more Starbucks in America than there are churches...
...Here's how it works: every car owner will be required to purchase a GPS machine that is able to send data tracking the distances of trips to a billing agency. Any motorist caught without the device will be fined. People driving a standard family sedan will be charged 3 euro cents per kilometer in 2012, with the tax going up every year until 2018, when it is expected to top out at an average of 6.7 cents per kilometer. So, for instance, a trip from Amsterdam to Eindhoven and back - a distance of about 250 kilometers - will cost...
...part due to lack of space. Previous attempts to reduce traffic - from offering incentives to people who carpool to giving away free croissants and newspapers on public transport - have had little effect. The government estimates that a typical rush hour has about 270 kilometers of traffic jams, although the GPS maker TomTom often records up to 1,000 kilometers of back-ups during peak hours. (See a TIME video of a GPS tour of the Berlin Wall...