Vindigo, and the pursuit of gas in the Bronx

Around 2001, I was driving back into New York after a business trip with my partner Mehmet. Mehmet was the one driving, I was sort of navigating in the passenger side. About 10 miles outside of the GW bridge on the I-95 Mehmet realized we had been running on empty for quite a bit and we were in clear danger of getting stuck with an empty tank very soon. As we got on the GW bridge, I started frantically looking for the first gas station available right after we would get off the bridge. I managed to find a gas station and navigate us there with no wasted turns and without getting lost in the Bronx. Without the no fuss UI design that vindigo had, i highly doubt we would have been able to get there in time. In 2008 with 400 Mhz processors and google maps on the iphone this doesn't seem like a big deal, but at the time, this was definitely a falling in love moment with location services.