The world's FIRST navigation system

[jasonl]

In 1981, Honda and Alpine (the car stereo makers), developed the Gyrocator, a gyroscope based navigation system that was a $2000 option in the 1981 Accord.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator

 

[sudsmaster]

Hmm. I guess the inventor of the sextant might be a bit miffed - but I think he died a couple hundred years ago ... ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_instrument#The_sextant