XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Aidan Kehoe:   
      
    > I was working on the assumption that the car does not have a GPS receiver;   
    > it has a SIM card and will call the emergency services if it feels there is   
    > an accident, and my working understanding was that its location sensing was   
    > done in the same way that mobile phones do, with triangulation from masts.   
    >   
    > However I have no mobile reception where I live and when I check today it   
    > does seem to work out the location with reasonable fidelity (I don’t   
    > normallly use the built-in navigation, Toyota do not excel at software) so   
    > it may have a built-in GPS.   
      
   Yesterday morning was relatively cold and cloudy and on turning on the car the   
   navigation suggested that the car was in the ocean and that the speed limits   
   were unknown. This did not change on driving to an area with phone reception.   
   It has corrected itself today. So, the location sensing is almost certainly   
   from a GPS receiver rather than its SIM card.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)