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World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights

posted by martyb on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-many-"landmarks"-at-sea dept.

AnonTechie writes:

World nations struck a landmark deal Wednesday on using satellites to track flights, which could prove key to preventing a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 in March 2014. Countries reached an accord at a conference hosted by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that aimed to improve on the current civilian flight-tracking system which relies on ground-based radars.

"In reaching this agreement... ITU has responded in record time to the expectations of the global community on the major issue concerning global flight tracking," the organisation's secretary general, Houlin Zhao, said in a statement.

The ITU statement made clear the deal was driven by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which was lost en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard. That tragedy "spurred worldwide discussions on global flight tracking and the need for coordinated action," the organisation said. Representatives of more than 160 nations attended the talks, known as the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC).

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-world-nations-landmark-satellites-track.html

[Also Covered By]: Daily Mail

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @07:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @07:06PM (#262302)

    because not everyone will respect that deal.
    as an example, I'm confident there is gun crime in the UK, even though "there is a deal" that civilians and the police should not be armed.
    as a sidenote, if I were in control (i.e. god-like power) I would provide everyone with a ridiculously powerful and fast robot that would respect Asimov's laws (or a very similar set of laws), except that they couldn't take any orders from people. that would basically mean violence between humans would be de facto impossible (since I would also make the robots smart enough to detect when someone is building a weapon that can destroy them).
    but I'm not in control.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @09:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @09:29AM (#262565)

    What would the robot do when it recognized that having a robot guard (because that's what your robots would be) around you all the time harms you mentally?