A Real High-Tech Fuel Saver. Fuel costs are outta sight, and it looks like the situation will only get worse. You’ll find lots of ads for “high tech fuel savers,” but most of these are gimmicks and rip-offs. But there is one high-tech device that really does save you fuel -- lots of it. It’s your GPS Navigation System. Among the many other benefits your GPS provides, saving you fuel is one of its best yet unsung benefits. With fuel prices at all-time highs and heading still higher, it won’t take long for your GPS investment to pay for itself in fuel savings along. Here are five ways that a GPS Navigation System improve your fuel economy (and save you time and stress to boot).
The Shortest Route from A to B: A GPS Navigation system can find the shortest, most efficient route to your destination, saving you miles and fuel
Get Help Planning Your Trip: A GPS greatly simplifies the process of trip planning, and units capable of multi-destination routing (such as the Magellan RoadMate 760 or the Garmin StreetPilot 2720) will actually calculate your optimal route for all the destinations you need to visit on a trip.
Avoid Traffic and Bad Weather: Garmin’s new “traffic-ready” systems (the StreetPilot 2720, StreetPilot c340, and the Nuvi 350) provide real-time traffic information on your GPS Navigation System’s map and, with the touch of a button, will reroute you around traffic jams. The forthcoming StreetPilot 2730 will also show you the weather ahead.
Find Gas, Food, and Rest Along the Way: Often it’s not getting from A to B that’s the challenge, but finding pit stops along the way that get us lost. How many times have you meandered miles down a dark road, never finding the Taco Bell or Exxon station that the highway sign promised was there. In-car GPS Navigation Systems are loaded with millions of points of interest (POIs) and will let you find gas, food, etc. near your current location, along your route, or near your destination.
Never Get Lost: And finally, the obvious: Every mile you spend driving around lost is a mile of wasted gas (not to mention time and stress). With an in-car GPS Navigation System, you may have no idea where you are, but you're never lost.
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