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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by Meatpropeller on Friday November 24, 2017 @11:32PM (#15774453)
GPS is not unreliable, especially in the wide open ocean with clear line of sight to the whole sky.
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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by rurban on Saturday November 25, 2017 @03:25AM (#15775025)
GPS can be spoofed. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143499-ships-fooled-in...
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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by grkvlt on Saturday November 25, 2017 @12:37PM (#15776869)
Well, of course designing an autonomous system to operate in an environment where malicious actors are actively spoofing and jamming your sensors with pathological inputs is a pretty huge challenge - admittedly one the military is probably very interested in - and is not the purpose of any of these competitions. It's hard enough when you trust your sensors, at the moment!
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Re:Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? by rurban on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:22AM (#15787066)
Here the shippers are drug cartels and spoofers are police force. A very likely scenario.
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