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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (1976)	12/11/1997 5:00:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3506

Skip, the sooner the better. By the way, for the very long term investor, the Kyoto agreement on reduction of greenhouse gases has to help 21st century infrastructure industries such as GPS.

To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (1976)	12/11/1997 6:41:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 3506

SKIP PAUL, re:<Car Nav below $1000> Yes that would be great. I don't understand why they have to cost $2000, when you can buy a GPS card with software that plugs into a laptop for $300. (See review in December Computer Shopper.) Limited vocabulary voice recognition and voice response should replace the expensive displays, and a smarter GPS receiver with multiple antenna inputs perhaps could eliminate the need for dead-reckoning gyro systems by reducing multipath in urban canyon environments. (The under $500 systems that plug into laptops have no dead-reckoning built in and only a single antenna.) I like this approach for Trimble because it increases the GPS portion of the cost. Petz