NavStar Voice Navigator Offers Hands-free Navigation

Sure, GPS is a very handy gadget whenever you are traveling to unknown locations or sidestepping heavy traffic areas. However, operating it sometimes distracts motorist which might cause some accidents or slow down.

Now, NavStar Technologies’ Voice Navigator combines safety and power of navigation with its hands-free turn-by-turn navigation system. It hooks up with your mobile phone so you just need to tell the location you want to go on the speaker and it will automatically dictate the turn-by-turn directions to you. No more glancing on the screen (obviously it doesn’t have one) so you can keep your eyes on the road all the time.

NavTeq’s location-based solutions and digital maps is the backbone of this new product. It integrates fresh data every quarter to ensure accuracy and optimal routing information.

However, experienced GPS users have a hard time accepting this concept. As GPSTracklog pointed out, driving is a visual experience and so is reading maps. Motorists are trained to navigate using maps so it might be very difficult yet equally interesting to predict if the general public will embrace this innovation.