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Beacons help Waze users navigate Pittsburgh's tricky tunnel exits

April 17, 2017

The Waze app indicates a tunnel is on the route and prompts you to use Bluetooth so the app continues working. — Erika Beras

The $30 gadgets are meant to solve 'tunnel blindness' and prevent accidents.

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Why aren't railroad crossings on your map app?

February 06, 2017

Many signs indicate the danger at the site of a deadly 2015 accident in Oxnard, California, where a truck driver turned his vehicle onto railroad tracks. — Jed Kim/Marketplace

About 200 people are killed at track crossings each year.

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Waze is doing away with the crazy left turns

June 17, 2016

They finally got it right. — LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images

Playing it safe.

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Maps for autonomous vehicles go beyond directions

By Ben Johnson and James Perla

August 04, 2015

A woman looks at a driverless vehicle known as a Lutz 'Pathfinder' Pod. Autonomous vehicles require complex mapping technology that does more than just plan out a route. — JACK TAYLOR/AFP/Getty Images

The minutiae and the stakes of mapping technology.

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Hacking into wired cars

By Nancy Marshall-Genzer

February 09, 2015

Facebook from a wirelessly connected smartphone is seen on a mock display of Valeo's Mobi/us autonomous dashboard, a concept for interacting with a self-driving car and a smartphone, in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. — ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

A new report says cars equipped with wireless Internet could be a security risk.

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Train-hopping in the digital age

July 02, 2014

8th July 1935: A steam train crossing the Darwood Viaduct — Fox Photos/Getty Images

A father-son duo recount how technology changed clandestine freight train travel.

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Double Charged: Teens on house arrest on GPS

By Sayre Quevedo

May 08, 2014

A GPS ankle monitor strapped to 17-year-old Elisa Morris-Jackson relays her exact location to juvenile probation officers. — Youth Radio

GPS monitors are cheaper than juvenile detention, but they come with other costs.

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The GPS trade-off: Get lost less often, but lose privacy

April 10, 2014

GPS keeps you from getting lost, but may result in loss of another kind: Privacy. — Marketplace Screenshot/Google Maps

Hiawatha Bray explains the hidden costs of your Google Maps app.

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When Apple and Google get into your car

January 13, 2014

Radio Disrupted: Ford and other car makers are poised to disrupt the radio business by adding the Internet to your dashboard.

At the Detroit Auto Show, it's clear that cars are becoming the biggest mobile device we own.

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