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Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working?

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 09 2019, @10:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the Betteridge-says-nope dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

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 The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 10 2019, @10:05AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday November 10 2019, @10:05AM (#918569) Homepage Journal

    Nope. I just check a map and the address. I might temporarily misplace my destination but I've never been lost while driving. No, seriously, never. I always know which way's north within five or ten degrees (plenty for rough navigation) and which way the roads I've been driving on are from where I am now.

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