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  1. Jan 25, 2026, 12:56 PM #1
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    1970s car navigation - GIF

    1970s car navigation.




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    Different country's way of describing things. Also,I'm sure the cassette tape could get you just as lost as today's GPS as well.
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    When you consider that today’s GPS systems only came to be due to the downgrading of military GPS - Hard to imagine how long it took to record each tape, and how they determined which destinations were even worth plotting and from what “start” locations were selected



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