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To: John Hunt who wrote (8294)	8/23/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) of 9818

Irate Japanese Car Drivers Hit By GPS Bug << A steady stream of irate customers called Japanese car navigation makers Sunday after their automotive directional devices failed due to a computer flaw. The screens on some car navigation systems went blank while others froze up as a computer bug struck Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, electronics company Pioneer Electronic Corp said. Pioneer, one of several car navigation system makers battling the bug, had received several hundred phone calls since the problem started at 9 a.m., a spokeswoman said. About 450 Pioneer workers manned telephone lines and staffed service centers over the weekend to help customers with the GPS problem, she said. Some 95,000 car navigation units sold in Japan may be unable to cope with an internal date change in the system, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said. Four Japanese manufacturers of GPS systems have completed updating only about 170,000 of the estimated 260,000 units sold in Japan since 1996 and believed to be still in operation. >> ... full article at ... dailynews.yahoo.com Can you imagine all these Japanese guys driving in circles looking for their office? The rest of the guys with GPS problems are probably lost and will not be reported missing for a couple of days. :-))

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