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Another film sightingAnother film sightingPosted Feb 26, 2009 14:20 UTC (Thu) by klaasjan (guest, #5492)In reply to: Another film sighting by eru Parent article: Microsoft sues TomTom
"an in-car computer that works much like a TomTom, except a bit smarter as it warns about a traffic jam ahead on its own."
The high-end TomTom units contain a GPRS modem and report their position to a central server which is able to detect traffic jams by lots of slowing navigation units ;). So in exchange for TT knowing where you are you get an early warning about traffic jams.
Also, I suppose that's the "mobile internet" feature the patent is about.
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Another film sighting Posted Feb 27, 2009 6:58 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Interesting, I didn't know about this feature. I wonder where Wender's team got the idea for the smart navigator shown in the film? Probably ideas related to it appeared in publications already in the 1980's (the film took a long time to make), and could be useful prior art for TomTom.
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