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It's not that we don't love BMWs; we do. It's just that their drivers are so easy to make fun of sometimes.

Take one Robert Jones, a British driver whose trust in his TomTom satellite navigation system led him to follow its directions down an increasingly narrow, rutted and precarious path in Tormorden, West Yorkshire, last March.

Until he got stuck against a fence that was the only thing keeping his BMW 5-Series from plummeting over a 100-foot cliff.

A British court convicted Jones of "driving without due care and attention"--in other words, sheer stupidity. As the Daily Mail puts it with characteristic British understatement, "he is...

TomTom has finally taken the wraps off its long-awaited iPhone GPS navigation app, and it's priced to start at $99. That's almost as much as a standalone GPS unit.

The iPhone app pricing also doesn't include the optional car kit that holds the phone, charges it, provides hands-free calling and improves GPS reception. Full package pricing for the U.S. hasn't been revealed, but Europeans are paying about $195.

Even with the typically lower prices of the U.S., that's well into dedicated GPS unit pricing, raising questions as to the value of the new app. On the other hand, there's a lot to be said for getting one more device out of the car.

The...