MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Heritage Since 1921 Mitsubishi Electric has made history with innovative products that defined a large part of the 20th Century. Here we present a look back at our manufacturing heritage.
 

1990

The product that brought GPS positioning technology to the public.
The world's first GPS-equipped car-navigation system.

Car-navigation systems played an important role in the spread of GPS.

Thanks mainly to the popularization of the car-navigation system, more people learned that GPS (Global Positioning System) means a "positioning system using data obtained from satellites." But exactly when did car navigation systems begin to incorporate GPS? The answer is surprisingly recent. The first model to incorporate GPS was a Mitsubishi Electric product in 1990. Why was GPS incorporated into car navigation, and how did the concept and technology of car navigation arise?