Venice to Have GPS Devices Installed in City Gondolas
Concerned about maritime safety after a German professor died in after a gondola crashed into a “vaporetto” waterbus, Venice’s municipal officials have determined that the city’s famed gondolas will be fitted with Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to prevent such accidents.
According to Newsweek, about 5,000 vessels (including water taxis) will be mandated to have the GPS devices installed. Prior to the new measures, gondolas were only identified by numbers inside the craft which could not be seen by surveillance cameras.