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Could the world cope if GPS stopped working?
What would happen if GPS - the Global Positioning System - stopped working?
For a start, we would all have to engage our brains and pay attention to the world around us when getting from A to B. Perhaps this would be no bad thing: we'd be less likely to drive into rivers or over cliffs through misplaced trust in our navigation devices.
Pick your own favourite story about the kind of idiocy only GPS can enable. Mine is the Swedish couple who misspelled the Italian island of Capri and turned up hundreds of miles away in Carpi, asking where the sea was.
But these are the exceptions.
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(Score: 2) by Mer on Sunday November 10 2019, @06:52AM (1 child)
I do care a lot for turn by turn guidance actually. Having to visit up to 6 clients a day at places I've never been before in a european city (without grid pattern).
But I can already think of a workaround. You plot the course from a start and end address, the app generates the step instructions and you validate each step by pushing a button.
Shut up!, he explained.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 10 2019, @10:07AM
How many turns are we talking here? If it's half a dozen or less from a known location, I wouldn't even have a map app open.
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