America is too dependent on tech developed and operated by the american military?!
the fuck?
But Elon doesn’t own the American Military (yet) so this makes sense. Its just vertical integration, really.
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Who’s “We”? The Government?
“Government is too reliant on Government?” (GPS is run by the US Government)
So they want to rely less on government, but relying on a corporation.
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Sounds like the FCC chair is taking his orders from Musk
GPS? You mean the technology that we as a country collective maintain? And have continued to maintain since it’s immediate inception?
Yeah, ok.
Call me when you start using glonass.
That’s weird, I always viewed GPS as a form of American Imperialism. Sure, it’s a bit extreme maybe, but America does own and operate it and jam it when enemies try to use it.
Calling GPS part of imperialism is a stretch. It was put in the air at no cost to another country and can be used without cost by anybody, but nobody has to use it. Other countries can launch their own satellites if they want, but they don’t because that’s expensive and GPS is free. The US isn’t making money off of it or exploiting another country with it.
Yes, the US can jam it regionally when in conflict but of course why wouldn’t we? No reason to help the enemy.
Other countries can launch their own satellites if they want, but they don’t because that’s expensive
They do, and they did:
EU (not a country, but still) - Galileo
Russia - GLONASS
China - BeiDou
They all have their own.
Thank you. I couldn’t remember the names and was rushing my comment before a meeting. I knew someone wouldn’t let that go without a correction.
technically, originally the GPS system was private, until made public, where it had error obfuscation, until semi recently it was released fully.
It was originally funded by the US government, still is, it’s just publicly accessible now.
(the original usecase being for shit like ICBMs and what not, obviously)
The one thing I miss from the TomTom era is I can’t have Brian Blessed give me directions anymore.
Corruption?
My phone uses the Graft Positioning System to tell me where I can go and who I can talk to.
I really hope this means another attempt to use the magnetosphere itself. MAGNAV might actually be possible at this point.
Edit: better article. AI advancements make MAGNAV a real possibility now. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3408951/magnav-project-successfully-demonstrates-real-time-magnetic-navigation/
No, the “better” article has a buzzword to information ratio of 3:1.
How does that handle high tension lines and the like, doesn’t it disturb the magnetosphere far too much? Kinda the reason even compasses don’t work anymore in town?
this would also be susceptible to magnetic field switching as well, shouldnt be a huge technical limitation, but im not sure accuracy is going to be quite as good.
No idea. I think there’s a lot of machine learning - enabled mapping up front.
he should explore seppuku with musk
I hope I’m not reading into this too much and thinking he just wants to use Russias standard of satellite technology. L5 GPS is better accuracy. Also if you look at 3GPP’s future planning and goals, the game is to utilize all RF technology together. 5G broadcast and LoRaWAN will make sensors happens within cities and highways and that working together with GPS and cell, you can get readings about a foot or less.
this is just some autistic shit from musk most likely.
I’m kind of surprised that Musk hasn’t proposed turning Selective Availability back on.
as opposed to what? can’t exactly say we should use something else if the government is intent on firing everyone that isn’t actively engaging in the tariff war
Understood! Anyway, thanks to the ruzzian GPS, I made a left over the canyon. Currently dangling. I think its wrong!..oh wait, it’s because I didn’t tell it to not fly or avoid bodies of water. Got it!
Don’t we use Galileo now instead?
This is going to kill people in order to enrich SwastiKet.
They’re called maps. I have several in my glove box.
How many gloves are in there?
2
Used to be 6, now 4.
And this is why the EU should have ignored the US when they whined that our Gallileo system used different frequencies from GPS.
As it stands now Gallileo was built to using frequencies that the US can jam using GPS.
Ooh i did not know about that, interesting. However they could just have built their GPS sats in such a way that allows a wide range of frequency jamming anyways.
there’s a significant difference in jamming capability between different frequencies? Are you jamming them from space or something?
That doesn’t really seem like a significant technical limitation to me.
