In case you missed it on CNN, starting next month Google is going to start offering map directions for local businesses, restaurants, hospitals, et cetera, at over 3,500 gas stations via a small color computer screen. I'm assuming it's a light-weight version of their Google map product. The initial offering will allow users to search several screens of common listings, but you won't be able to type-in individual addresses just yet. From what we know of Google, we won't have to wait too long. Once you find the directions you need, you simply print the map with your receipt.
Bringing digital directions to the gas pump seems so obvious (now); but it takes an ingenious company like Google to make it a reality. It's hard to find many companies that are changing "how we do things" on such a broad-scale and in so little time.
You can read the rest of the article here: Google at the Gas Pump
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