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It always makes me happy when a company reaches out to an ignored user base, such as the disabled. Recently, a United Kingdom-based company, Navevo, came out with a new GPS called BBNav. The “BB” in BBNav stands for Blue Badge (Blue Badge is the UK’s parking program for the disabled). If you are in need of a GPS, I would probably not recommend the BBNav unless you could take advantage of this GPS’s unique features.
This GPS’s distinguishing feature is that it displays many special parking spots, and 20,000 Blue Badge POIs as well as 60,000 other POIs. Navevo teamed up with PIE (Public Information Exchange) to help discover and add disabled parking lots to their GPS maps. These NAVTEQ maps cover all 150 major cities and towns in the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland. Furthermore, the BBNav will come with a 6-month free trial of safety camera alerts and will retail in October for 200 Euros.
I haven’t seen many GPS devices specifically designed to help those who are disabled, but I hope there are more like these out there and available in many countries. It will definitely make any trip much better with all the extra information it provides.
Via [NaviGadget]
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