Patent ID: 8566028

Claim:
An apparatus to autonomously determine and guide a driver to potential destinations, the apparatus comprising: a landmark module configured to store a plurality of landmarks from a database, the landmarks comprising one or more of landmarks passed by a vehicle within a specified interval, landmarks where the vehicle has stopped for a specified time period, and landmarks with a specified interest distance from the vehicle; an identification module configured to identify a first current location and a first current direction of the vehicle; a destination module configured to, in response to the first current location and direction of the vehicle, autonomously determine a first plurality of potential destinations, the first plurality of potential destinations determined from the plurality of landmarks, the first current location, and the first current direction; and a prompt module configured to audibly prompt a driver with an audible navigation prompt for each of the first plurality of potential destinations, at least one audible navigation prompt thereof comprising a turning instruction for driving to a particular destination of the plurality of potential destinations wherein the identification module, destination module, and prompt module are responsive to a user issuing a help command by one or more of pushing a help button and verbally selecting the help command and the destination module is configured to determine the plurality of potential destinations while the apparatus is operating currently without the user programming the apparatus with a destination, wherein the landmark module, the identification module, the destination module, and the prompt module comprise of a logic hardware.