#gps

Your GPS has never steered you wrong in the past. So when it comes to seeing some, umm, unusual sites on your next road trip, put your trust in it once more. Just add RoadsideAmerican.com’s latest guide to your Garmin GPS device and you’ll be taking shots of interesting locales around the U.S., such as the drive-through tree or the world’s largest six pack.

Touted as “the ultimate driving companion,” the compact Passport iQ integrates radar/laser detection and GPS navigation, and also provides important driving information, such as speed traps and speed limit data, and displays all this information on a five-inch screen.

Another day, another smartphone app. This time around, it’s courtesy of GM. They’ve released a free app that allows owners of all 2011 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles to access vehicle information and OnStar services.

Get ready to upgrade your driving directions. Garmin has just updated the 1600 GPS series with the new Garmin NuLink 1695.

One of the downsides of winter (What? There’s a down side?) has to do with driving and your GPS device. If you own one, you know what we’re talking about – you have to take off your gloves in order to work your unit. Well, thanks to TomTom and its new European-market GO Live 1000 series, this problem may be a thing of the past.

Adding fuel to the fire called the entry-level GPS market, Garmin has launched two new Nuvi lines – the 2200 series and the 2300 series.

Are you lost? Finding you’re way around is as easy as looking in your rear-view mirror, thanks to the MirrorNavi.

We’ve covered the dangers of texting while driving, and how distracting kids can be in the car. But here’s another serious concern we’d like to address: bickering couples.

GPS has made our lives so much easier. So how do you improve the experience? Well, by making it much more fun to get to your destination.  Get rid of that old arrow that shows you the way around and replace it with a cool icon that takes you anywhere you need to go.

Using Google Maps  to plot your route is a major convenience on a home computer, but there’s no good solution on taking them with you. Printing them is cumbersome, and inputing them onto a smartphone or PDA is just another level of distraction.

Now, Ford and Google have teamed up to let you send your Google Maps data right to your car via Sync. Combined with a mobile phone (used for downloading the Google Maps Data), the route information can be sent directly to the GPS system in a Sync equipped vehicle, and drivers can get real-time traffic updates thanks to a tie-in with Sync’s Traffic, Directions and Information system. The service will launch later this month, with a Mapquest based system coming later in 2010.

Hit the jump for the official press release

[Source: Ford]