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Re:Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage by riffraff on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:22AM (#14048368)
regarding GPS errors, is it GPS which is the issue, or just phones with sub-par sensors and set ups?

I ask this cause my wife's previous phone had consistently crappy GPS performance, losing satellite connection very often, getting stuck etc.

I never had such issues with mine, nor with her new one.

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Re:Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage by yanma on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:59AM (#14050528)
Sensors quality does have something to do with it, but regardless, you won't be able to get the accuracy and consistency from GPS you need for localizing a self driving vehicle.

Unless you get a DGPS unit (super expensive and require 3k subcription from satellites) you get north of 1m accuracy.

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