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1986: Satellite Navigation for Cars of the Future | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
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5:16Now Playing"It may not look futuristic, but this is a highly intelligent car."
Tomorrow's World presenters Judith Hann and Peter Macann look at a concept car that aims to predict the kind of vehicles we might well be driving in the 21st Century. One of the most interesting features of the car is a large navigation panel that will offer drivers assistance using satellite navigation.
How feasible is in-car navigation in 1986? Maggie Philbin visits the Transport and Road Research Facility in Crowthorne to test out two of the latest prototype in-car navigation systems. How do they work - and how long before we can expect to see them in production vehicles?
Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, 25 September, 1986.
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