satnav Sat nav boost for car hire usersNew technology launched by the European Commission and European Space Agency could make sat nav systems as much as five times more accurate, car hire in London users may be pleased to hear.

Users of car hire in London relying on a sat nav to get them from landmark to landmark may be in luck, as the technology could soon be made more accurate.

A new system launched by the European Space Agency claims to be able to improve the range of this equipment.

This is a result of the new European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service reducing the margin of error on sat navs from around ten metres to two metres.

The larger figure refers to the performance of the widely-used global positioning satellite system.

Antonio Tajani, vice president for transport at the European Commission, said: “What we are doing opens the door for European businesses and citizens to benefit from the myriad of better applications and new opportunities made possible by more precise navigation signals.”

This latest technology is a far cry from navigation systems that were recently found to have been used by Brits in the Stone Age.

Research from historian Tom Brook suggested that these individuals used hilltop monument networks to find their way from one settlement to another.

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