Top 10 Car Technologies We'll No Longer Do Without From heated seats to airbags, from Bluetooth connectivity to collision alerts, here are the technologies that have become indispensable to us today as we drive

7 — Navigation

Long before GPS systems appeared, Honda developed a navigation system in 1981. It used a gyroscope with two wires and a helium jet to determine the vehicle’s position. The Electro Gyrocator worked with map overlays instead of digital markers. The dot on the screen showed your current position, and all calculations and direction of travel were done by a 16-bit computer.

The more commonplace GPS system as we know it today has it beginnings at Mazda in 1990. Today, everything or just about is found within our smartphones and can be transferred directly to the vehicle's multimedia screen, technically models don't even need to offer navigation anymore. So it goes with technological progress…