Caption: It's easy for a motorist to find his way if he's driving Ford Motor Company's new Continental Concept 100 electronic car. Satellite navigation is the key function of a multi-display information system called Tripmonitor, consisting of a nine-inch-diagonal, eight-color cathode ray tube with feature-select buttons and touch-screen switching (above, right). The driver presses a button to call up the map display on which the car's location is pinpointed. Using data from Transit satellites, the system can locate the car with accuracy within 400 meters anywhere in the world. Shown below the map display is the front control panel for a unique entertainment system, which has a remote all-electronic radio with seperate front and rear controls linked to the chassis by fiber-optic cables. Features include a seven-band graphic equalizer, seperate microcassette tape players for the two control panels, a weather scanner and TV sound. Steering-column pushbutton controls for functions such as headlights and wipers are seen at the left.
The front and back of this photograph are pictured below.
