Pioneer will truly be living up to its name when that GPS system hits the shelves. The view is to combine a traditional GPS unit with cameras mounted on your car. The GPS unit will next “see” the road in front of you.

The working name for the unit is the Image Recognition Car Navigation System. We have to assume that will be one of the first flaws beaten out of it in Beta evaluating. The good society at Pioneer believe the unit will be able to warn you of objects in the road, measure the distance within you and

the car in front of you, give clearer directions after matching up the images it sees and the map input in its memory, and even propose a more scenic route whether the landscape remains unchanged. It will be just like traveling with another person minus the annoying small talk.

Since that is a concept there is no firm moment on when it will reach, whether ever, but whether the local BestBuy winds up with them on the shelves expect a hefty price tag, probably in the range of a smallish nuclear submarine.

Original post by Ana Troy