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April 2001
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Avis Introduces New Alpine Portable Navigation System At Five Key Airport Locations
Garden City, N.Y., April 26, Avis Rent A Car and Alpine Electronics of America has announced that Alpine's new portable satellite navigation system would be available on a test basis to Avis customers renting most vehicles in the Avis fleet at five key airport locations in California, New York and Florida.
Avis is believed to be the first rental car company to offer navigation devices that are portable and can be installed in seconds in nearly any rental vehicle covering any price range.
Known as PowerNAV, the DVD based satellite navigation system will be available for a nominal daily charge of $6.95 to customers upon request at the international airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, New York, (John F. Kennedy) and Palm Beach.
A driver can quickly mount the PowerNAV monitor with its digital map display on the dashboard of the car by securing a small clip to one of the air vents. Then the driver enters his or her destination and the PowerNAV does the rest, seamlessly guiding the driver by using turn-by-turn voice directions complimented with an LCD video screen. There is no need for drivers to take their eyes off the road to watch the map. They merely listen to the voice commands.
As a result, there are no more stressful moments worrying about how to get around in an unfamiliar location. The PowerNAV unit incorporates the Navigation Technologies (NavTech(R)) map database and the Info USA(R) points of interest/business information database for state-of-the-art precision and detail. With mapping detail of the contiguous United States, PowerNAV does not need to be reprogrammed if a driver travels from one region to another.
The navigational system test is yet another example of Avis' technological leadership in the rental car industry. Avis has been a leader in using OnStar, the security and assistance system developed by General Motors, in thousands of its rental vehicles, and uses Avis InterActive, the industry leading, Web-based fleet management tool to help its corporate customers track rental vehicle usage and trends.
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