IN-CAR navigation systems make trips shorter and safer.
Wen-Chen Lee and Bor-Wen Cheng of the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan paid 16 drivers to use satnav systems that display suggested routes on a screen and 16 to use paper maps to get to a range of destinations. Satnav-aided journeys were around 7 per cent shorter than map-guided ones in towns, and 2 per cent shorter on rural runs, they will report in Accident Analysis & Prevention. As shorter trips use less fuel, Lee says they are kinder to the environment.
Lee also found that map users…
