To provide a vehicle navigation system that can accurately display a
position of a vehicle that has the navigation system mounted thereon and
a target direction even when the vehicle is stopped or traveling at low
speed. The vehicle navigation system includes a device that senses a
traveling state of a vehicle, a device that judges whether or not the
vehicle is stopped or traveling at a low speed, and a device that
smoothes GPS positioning data so that error components contained in the
GPS positioning data are canceled out or compensated for when the vehicle
is stopped or traveling at a low speed. The navigation system further
includes a device that calculates the current position based on the
smoothed GPS positioning data. The smoothing device outputs new
positioning data, for example, based on current GPS positioning data and
previous GPS positioning data.