How GPS Saves You Gas
By: Jack Lee | Posted: 25th September 2006
Unless you've been residing on a deserted island (and under a rock at the same time) you discover that gas prices are not everyone's cup of tea - unless you are an oil tycoon.
For those who live in big cities where mass commute is widely accessible, it's pretty simple to bypass this problem by opting to take them in its place of using your own car to travel to and fro to work. But for the majority of us, driving is not going away anytime soon.
Owning a GPS system installed in your car will reduce your gas prices. How? It will continually giving the most direct routes to whichever location you need to go. If it's raining hard and visibility is lower than usual, a GPS can serve as a navigation partner to help you find your way home or to wherever you want to go. This saves you time and gas from spinning your wheels, potentially getting lost along the way, and giving yourself a migraine in the course.
Not only does a GPS give you accurate directions, it also provides for projections as to how it will take to get to a certain objective via a particular path. You can then compare paths and time estimates. When you take all of this into consideration, you will realize that paying a few hundred for a brand new GPS unit is not much considering how much it will save you year in and year out.
I mean let's take a brief example. Let's say it costs you $30 each time you go fill up your tank. Imagine that before getting your GPS system you had to get you tank filled on average once a week. That's $1,520 for an entire year.
Now on the flip side, let's imagine you got you GPS unit up and rolling. With improved efficiency in getting to your destinations, you effectively have reduced the amount of wasted gas as a result of not getting sidetracked or getting lost while driving. Maybe you will only have to get your tank filled up once every two weeks instead- in which case you will only be spending $760 a year for gas- or a savings of 50%.
These are just sample numbers, but you can see how you can get a return on your investment over and over again merely by purchasing a GPS system which ranges anywhere from $100 or so to $1000 or more. But you don't need to get the fanciest model right out of the starting gate. Anything within the $200-$400 range should give you a very robust system in general.
GPS live tracking products will allow you to keep tabs on your most important possessions.
GPS tracking services for people will provide you with peace of mind.
About the Author
{if $articleAuthor->occupation}Occupation: {$articleAuthor->occupation}
{/if}
{$articleAuthor->biography}
{if $articleAuthor->website}{/if}
This article is free for republishing
Printed From: http://www.a1articles.com/how-gps-saves-you-gas-88956.html
Back to the original article
Tags: objective, wheels, visibility, efficiency, tank, cup of tea, flip side, own car, migraine, gas prices, gps system, deserted island, gps unit