TomTom's portable car navigator systems have a new feature called TomTom Buddies. Stuff magazinereports that the new friend tracking system allows people to not only send messages back and forth but keep track of where their friends are located.
Called TomTom Buddies, the feature lets you track your mates wherever you go – and in return, they get to track you too.
All you do is invite other TomTom users -- you'll have to shun your Garmin and Navman chums - to be your authorised 'buddy'. The idea is that the Buddies service will be like an exclusive club through which you can send each other text messages and locations you think are interesting.
If you feel like being a loner for a bit you can select the privacy option which lets you hide your location. Plus, if any of your Buddies keep sending you naff Points of Interest -- dodgy McDonald drive-ins, for example -- you can delete them.
It could be a very useful system for driving vacations involving more than one vehicle. Carpooling parents and corporations with fleets of vehicles might also find this type of service useful.
