{"id":438,"date":"2007-08-10T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/satnav-issues-a-japanese-invasion\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:16:17","slug":"satnav-issues-a-japanese-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/438","title":{"rendered":"SatNav Issues&#8230; A Japanese Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what must be one of the more &#8216;Unique&#8217; product placements ever, Hitachi has used a US map for their SatNav systems. Look at the following graphic for the MMP-501. If you lool carefully you might just be able to work out where it is from. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachi.com.au\/pr-MMP501.seo\">Web Site<\/a> for the product does not have this issue, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachi.com.au\/Admin\/uploads\/Documents\/122c9696-b00f-4889-a1a6-753bf5172130.pdf\">manual<\/a> most certainly does.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/25072007-001--300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo is from my camera phone so I am sorry for the quality. Now look at the following map from Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/map-300x177.jpg?resize=300%2C177\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guess where this is from? Pearl City. So, where is Pearl City? It is in Hawaii, on the shores of Pearl Harbour. I am sure that a Japanese company like Hitachi could have chosen a better destination for a SatNav system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what must be one of the more &#8216;Unique&#8217; product placements ever, Hitachi has used a US map for their SatNav systems. Look at the following graphic for the MMP-501. If you lool carefully you might just be able to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/438\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SatNav Issues&#8230; A Japanese Invasion<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/25072007-001-.jpg?fit=1280%2C960","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cfmK-74","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}