UK 'over-reliant' on GPS signals, engineers warn

Gargamel · 03-13-11, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by CCIP

I wanna see what would happen if you take one of those things up on a plane

"Drive down 10 kilometers, then turn left..."

Spent 2 weeks on a house boat on the St Lawrence a few years ago. Brought the Garmin car GPS.

Yeah... the thing was useless. Kept trying to get us to drive to the nearest road. And it didn't even have the rideau canal properly mapped so it thought we were going through fields.

Then, on the week long drive home (stopped and camped at mutiple spots), we stopped at Fort Ticonderoga. The GPS found it ok... but only the driveway...... which is like 4 miles long. The entire time, it kept saying (cause I couldn't mute it or get the volume below 10%) "Turn around, turn Around"

After about 15 minutes of this, I swear to God, it said "Fine!" and turned off.