The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan

Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by savimportweb on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:50AM (#17609187)

GPS is american, Europeans have the Galileo system, and the russians have glonass. aren't those a backup plan

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Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by AdamJacobMuller on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:27PM (#17611059)

and many "GPS" chipsets actually read both GPS and GLONASS. In the future most systems will probably read at least 3 of the global systems (India and China are also deploying/planning on deploying their own systems).

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Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by krageon on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:19AM (#17616111)

Yes, but that wouldn't make for a satisfying headline.

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Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by sunstone on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:57PM (#17611309)

If I'm not mistaken China has one in the works as well.

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Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan by sunstone on Thursday July 26, 2018 @07:08AM (#17616489)

For some reason this comment collected a few down votes so here is a reference to the Chinese GPS system [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...

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