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Bosch EVA (1983)

"The prototype driver navigation system was unveiled in Hildesheim on June 21, 1983, and it proved groundbreaking: EVA was the first ever experimental autonomous navigation system."

https://www.bosch.com/stories/eva-first-navigation-system-fr...

(no map, but display and address to address with route finding)

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Very interesting, i've just yesterday wrote about the successor of EVA, the TravelPilot IDS [1] which was commercially available. But I didn't knew that there was another system 5 years ahead.

Both (Etak and TravelPilot IDS) seems to use kind of a vector display. Does someone know if this is for better resolution or better contrast, or both or if there is another reason?

https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/navigation-sys...

There is no conventional resolution to vector displays (though monitors have limitations).

Reminds me at one point in time I owned a Vectrex, which had much cleaner lines than any other console, even much better than my later, much more expensive Amiga or (early) PCs.

"This Vectrex does things I never thought possible" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dv15YRAmzM

Only got that feeling back with Retina displays.

I worked at the company that made the Vectrex, Jay Smith was a wonderful guy. Super brilliant too: the world of PSX Bowling games was his creation, he wrote the first bowling physics sim using Excel, and we hired some guy with a PhD in Statistics who wrote Jay's algorithm in assembly for the PSX, and the 3D bowling genre was launched.

I wonder what was the state of navigation systems for planes at this time, because among the car GPS brands, one finds for instance Garmin, which is an avionics company.

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