{"id":2472,"date":"2022-06-27T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2024-03-25T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:06:53","slug":"women-with-drive-dr-gladys-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/women-with-drive-dr-gladys-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Women with drive &#8211; Dr Gladys West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>You might be lost without her.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is an old stereotype that men would rather go around in circles than ask for directions.\u00a0 But thanks to this woman&#8217;s efforts, getting directions is now second nature for most drivers.<\/p>\n<h3>Dr Gladys West: The Globe Tracker<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What she gave us: <b>Global Positioning System (GPS) <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s admit it \u2013 most of us would be lost without the help of GPS to map out our journeys. Heading out to check out that new restaurant that everyone is talking about? Picking up your teenage children who&#8217;ve been out gallivanting with their friends somewhere? Punch in the address on your smartphone or car&#8217;s navigation system, and you&#8217;re soon on your way.<\/p>\n<p>While Hedy Lamarr was a pioneer in the technology that lay the groundwork for GPS, the actual invention has been associated with at least four people. One of them is Dr Gladys West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an old stereotype that men would rather go around in circles than ask for directions.\u00a0 But thanks to this woman&#8217;s efforts\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-article3.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153,1],"tags":[33,166,184,237,249,34,49,231,51,238],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment","category-stories","tag-connected","tag-dr-gladys-west","tag-history","tag-international-womens-day","tag-iwd","tag-stories","tag-voices","tag-women-history","tag-women-in-automotive","tag-womens-history-month"],"acf":{"post_image_or_video":"image","post_image":2475,"post_video":null,"post_tag":"#STORIES","post_meta":[{"meta_text":"6 MAR 2023"},{"meta_text":"1 min READ"}]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}