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Sat-nav flashback: Honda's 1981 Electro Gyrocator mapping system

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You choose a plastic map from the guide book, insert it into the machine, place an "X" on your current position and then a gas gyroscope measures the car's movement, plotting your course. Genius! The only rub was the cost of the system which came in around $2-3k... in 1981... when the Accord it was fitted to cost about $12,000 $8,000.

Awesome!

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