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GPS News and Commentary
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Coming GPS Breakdown? Bobbie Johnson reports for Guardian.uk.com: US government officials are concerned that the quality of the Global Positioning System (GPS) could begin to deteriorate as early as next year, resulting in regular blackouts and failures – or even dishing out inaccurate directions to millions of people worldwide. GPS Users Lazy? My wife [...]
Twitter and GPS: Tools for Terrorists?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Low-Tech Times previously published posts about Twitter being unreliable and unnecessary. Twitter is a service people use to instantly publish what they are thinking and doing so others can “follow them.” The Low-Tech Times has also previously asserted that there are good reasons not to use Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Now, the U.S. Army [...]
Autopilot Automobiles: A Nonsensical Idea
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Timothy B. Lee writes an interesting fantasy about the future, where cars drive by themselves. He sees plenty of benefits to such a system: In short, a car that drives as well as the best human drivers would save tens of thousands of lives in the United States and hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. [...]