def of "Telematics"

Reference
BGoodman's FAQ

Steering Wheel mounted Input
Kord Wrap
mini optical mouse (possibly use upside-down)
mini trackball
ringmouse

Steering Wheel mounted Input - DIY
Sub-miniature joystick (4cm across, 8cm high)
Chording keys
mini trackball (46mm)
glove + accelerometer, or flex sensors: resistance, piezo film, fiber optic, capacitance

Other mount Input
various chorded keyboards including a linux kernel patch that makes a numeric keypad act as a chorded keyboard
text input via joystick
Joystick - AVC Topshot
Joystick - Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D
Joystick - Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2

Speech input
Study - speech input is safer

Complete Systems - production
Q-PC
Mobile Vu - police oriented
RealtyNAV - real estate professionals oriented

Complete Systems - One off, professional
Italian Research Voice Recognition car
Hummer

Complete Systems - One off, homemade
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MCAS
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MP3 box

Linux Car, DashPC
JICS
lumina.mp3
SunAmp

Apps
AT&T Lab's Automated Vehicles
GPSS
Voice Browsers (1998)
Door-to-door Copilot (GPS software)
TTS Konquerer

Use Cases
Navigation
MP3's
Web stuff (traffic, general surfing...)
TV
Radio
DVD / DivX
Games (eg. MAME)

Modified Sine Inverters
Whistler 500		$112		http://www.aaaprice.com/whis500watpp.html
			 $90		that rest stop 25 miles SE of me
Road Worthy 9050
Cherokee TS-500
Whistler 750		$117		http://www.skingcompany.com/detail.asp?product_id=PP750AC

Statpower 600		$90		http://www.audio-direct.com/cgi-bin/pgen_asp/pagegen.asp?itemnum=PW-600
					http://www.netmarket.com/SHP/scripts/ProductDetail.asp?ptype_code=CAPI&model_sysid=993752
					http://www.vitmarine.com/sta-pro-600.html
					http://www.electronicaccessory.com/mall/pw600.asp

	http://www.skingcompany.com/portable_power/
	http://www.netmarket.com/SHP/scripts/FeatureShop.asp?ptype_code=CAPI
	http://dcacinverters.com/


From our experience, inverters can be classed quality wise (not
considering price) like this:
1. Exeltech
2. Trace
3. Heart & the Statpower Prowatt series
4. Statpower Portawattz series, Tripplite, Power to Go
5. Everything else


Typical watts used for household items
two



Pure Sine Inverters
PSW-400		400w	 $85		http://www.donrowe.com/inverters/powertogo_400.html
					http://shop.store.yahoo.com/jandr/ptg-psw400.html
G-12-300S	300w	$110		http://www.web-tronics.com/pursinwav300.html


Garmin GPS 35PC?		$190
Holux GM-200		$100


Power Control
    relays, switch hacking
    def of "transfer relay"
    Relays eat up a lot of power.  If the switch hack can be used, then digital electronics can be used to decide


Analysis:
	Shock-mount entire computer with something like this?


Necessary:
  - inverter

Nice:
  - GPS receiver
  - 802.11b card x 2
  - cell modem

Design:

• logitech wireless keyboard, attached to seat belt, lying across chest. Receiver in trunk, or perhaps dangling out somewhere. Touch typing is aided by a Half-Qwerty keyboard driver (a GPL'd one in linux, of course). Picture of me.
• sound output via Blaupunkt's Aux In stereo headphone jack.