Looking for a 2 meter radio that automatically recognizes repeaters via GPS, and has information pre-programmed.

I’ve always wondered – why doesn’t someone create a radio that recognizes the closest repeaters via GPS and has pre-programmed tones in order to access said repeaters? I have an ID-51 and I know the radio does this for D-Start, but what about FM? Can the ID-51 find/access local FM 2 meter repeaters using the GPE search and allow me to communicate with them? If not the ID-51, is there another 2 meter radio that does this?

TL;DR I’m sick of going on road trips and having to stop/check the local tones on the 2 meter repeaters in order to ragchew. Why can’t this info be pre-programmed?

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