| Very few new cars these days are sold without | | | | and used in different cars, making them beneficial |
| a GPS device included. The popularity of these | | | | if you are required to hire cars frequently for |
| devices has increased exponentially since they | | | | work or any other reason. Not every rental car |
| were introduced earlier in the decade, with | | | | will have a GPS system and the chances are that |
| motorists really giving the thumbs up to a method | | | | if you are hiring a car you will be somewhere |
| of navigation that has allowed them to | | | | relatively unfamiliar – thus with all the more |
| concentrate on the important parts of driving | | | | need to have a GPS system installed. |
| without having to stop to look at a map every | | | | The other major advantage of a portable GPS |
| few miles. With a GPS device installed, all you | | | | device is that it can be used as a handheld |
| need to do is punch in the information and it will | | | | satellite navigation system that can help you find |
| find the destination for you and tell you how to | | | | your way on foot to somewhere simply by |
| get there. GPS devices are so popular that now, | | | | punching in the information required. If you are on |
| like with so many other technological advances, | | | | a business trip, then, and are unable to park near |
| they come in many forms and go from cheap, | | | | to where you are going for the day, the GPS |
| simple units to more technologically advanced | | | | becomes doubly useful in allowing you to find your |
| ones that cost a lot more. | | | | way to a parking lot and then to get from that |
| One element of the popularity of automotive GPS | | | | parking lot to the office building where your |
| devices is in their ease of installation. Many of | | | | meetings will be held. |
| them can be installed by means of a suction cup | | | | Many of the newly sold cars on the market these |
| that allows them to attach to the windscreen. | | | | days actually have a GPS component in the |
| Although this is illegal in some states, the majority | | | | dashboard. Unlike the above kinds, these GPS |
| of states do allow it and it makes both attaching | | | | systems cannot be transferred from car to car |
| and detaching a perfectly easy process. Some of | | | | nor used as handheld devices. To their advantage |
| them can also be mounted on the dashboard, | | | | however, they are run from the car’s |
| which has the advantage over suction-mounted | | | | battery and therefore are unlikely to cut out at |
| devices of being positioned further forward, and is | | | | inopportune moments – they are also easily |
| therefore less obstructive to a driver’s view. | | | | programmable and will store journeys that you |
| Many of the newer forms of GPS device are | | | | make frequently. |
| portable. These devices can be easily detached | | | | |