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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:23 am    Post subject: Cool archive video! Cassette navigation demonstration Reply with quote

This video popped up in my YouTube feed and is well worth a watch!
Not sure of the year of the beetle, but the registration plate suggests pre 1962.
It is dated 1971, from a popular TV programme called 'Tomorrow's World' and demonstrates a fancy new navigation system running on cassette tapes!
Loads of cool details, including showing the navigation unit and the circuit boards that can be replaced for different routes and it suggests that this might be useful for chauffeurs who are driving 'wealthy Americans' around country houses in Britain!
I was also fascinated by the background details, like the road signs, traffic lights, and other traffic (including a few split buses!)
See what you think, and let us know what catches your eye!


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:31 am    Post subject: Re: Cool archive video! Cassette navigation demonstration Reply with quote

Oooh! I've just watched it again and there's a Karmann Ghia in the background too! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:43 am    Post subject: Re: Cool archive video! Cassette navigation demonstration Reply with quote

I would say it is a ‘62 or a ‘63.

It has a fuel gauge, ‘62 was the first year for that as standard, before ‘62 it was optional.

Also, it has the larger tail lights which started in ‘63 and ran until ‘67.

‘61 and down has snowflake tail lights.

It also has the small license plate light, that ended very, very early ‘64 (along with the peanut turn signals)

It has peanut turn signals, those ended in ‘63 (as mentioned above, they were actually ended very, very early in ‘64 model year production).

So, ‘62 or ‘63.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:55 am    Post subject: Re: Cool archive video! Cassette navigation demonstration Reply with quote

that's michael rodd driving and I think the reg indicates a southampton car. he was on tomorrow's world from 1972. sadly the reg details aren't found on dvla records (if I've read the numbers correctly).
if the box under the dash needs an odometer drive how was that achieved - it would need a splitter to drive both the cars speedo one and the cas-nav?

do, do, doo, doo-dooo, dada,da, dada, ba, badda ba etc was the shows theme music!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:47 am    Post subject: Re: Cool archive video! Cassette navigation demonstration Reply with quote

Fascinating video.

There were paper navigation systems as early as the 'teens, with instructions printed on a roll that could be manually advanced as the driver moved along. The cassette system was much more sophisticated, measuring the actual distance traveled between instructions.

I was wondering how it could cope with unexpected obstructions, and obviously it couldn't.

I'm reminded of the first time I ever used GPS, in a rental car many years ago. There was massive construction all around the area which made it impossible to follow the instructions. That GPS didn't have a provision to recalculate an alternate route so it just kept telling me to make a U-turn to get back to the original route that was blocked. I got hopelessly lost and it was of no help.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool archive video! Cassette navigation demonstration Reply with quote

I remember adding a cassette to my 61 back in long ago time. It was an upgrade from my AM radio with an under dash FM converter box.

I recall self driving cars when I was a kid, while at Disneyland. I rode in them, lots of fun. Oh what the future would hold back then.

I still prefer paper maps over automated voice command directions however.



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