I'm pretty sure there's a large group of people that would like to know the 'real' 0-60 or quarter mile-time of their car. But to driver it watching the innaccurate speedo with your brother timing it on his wrist-watch is the closest most of us ever get. I want a GPS that can time my car's acceleration, braking, or track-time.

I don't have a fast enough car, enough money to burn or a whole day to invest to enter in a drag-race bracket. This also could work for circuit-racing, any circuit of your own design.

And when you add that alledged 25-horsepower gizmo, how do you tell if it helped?

I'm proposing that someone write software for a regular GPS that would put it in a performance-test mode. I would most likely be not-exactly accurate, unless you were near a WAAS (ground beacon) system. Or you could set a football-sized WAAS that you sell at your start-point.

I don't see why this would need to be a whole new GPS system--I'm pretty sure it could be a third-party software application.

And as for the boy-racer-danger-this is illegal aspect of this, my system would have warnings that it was not for use on public roads.

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