As I said the equipment is pretty big, like the size of a small refrigerator, so it's going to need to get reduced quite extensively before it's really used in anything like that.
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It's a kind of ridiculous system though because you somewhat arbitrarily have 12 points on your licence, which is just a weird number for them to have chosen, and penalty points only stay on your licence for 18 months. So you could be like this idiot and drive while using your phone and you probably won't be caught often enough for you to actually lose your licence.
So habitual offenders get away with it as long as they're not too egregious.
I would love to see them try that for other crimes.
Excuse me, I'm allowed to shoplift, that CCTV camera is breaking my privacy rights.
Because the GPS isn't distracting, reading a message is distracting, writing a message is especially distracting.
Glancing at the screen to see when you're turning left isn't.
It's generally my boss texting me because he has absolutely no idea what the schedule for today is, I take great pleasure and ignoring him. I could pull over and answer him but I'm not gonna.
If you can make pets immortal you'll probably be in line for a Nobel prize. Making humans immortal will be considered a nice thing but probably not prizeworthy.
Everyone will complain that you invented it too soon and all the horrible people haven't died yet.
It turns out that they did do that, we knew all along, and we're ok with it.
- Microsoft
We would need a significant technological boost to be able to see the surfaces of alien worlds, I think that technology alone would be a candidate for innovation. After all whether or not we find aliens is not dependant on the technology but depending on if there are any to find.
That is when we peaked as a civilisation. When MTV stopped being a music channel that's when things started to go downhill.
I doubt it'll ever be used on commercial aircraft, since they do have GPS and all the other things there isn't really any point adding a yet another system. Especially because it requires cooling, if it gets too warm it stops working, and buy too warm I mean the temperature of interplanetary space is too warm. Basically has to be absolute zero or bust.
It's not really an alternative to GPS. It has no idea where on earth you are, it simply accurately tracks your motion through the world but it has no idea where that motion is occurring, you have to start off with a known starting point, then it tracks your motion to work out your current location. But it is only as accurate as the accuracy of the starting point, if that's off by 400 m then so will be the result.
It's basically a very good inertial navigation system, plus this isn't the first time it's been tested it's been tested on ships and planes before.
It's not going to replace GPS for commercial purposes because there's very few scenarios where you don't have a GPS up link. But it'll be useful is in situations where that's not possible like on submarines or yeah in space. It isn't like your car is ever going to use this though.
It's the same in the UK. The politicians bitch and moan about it but they're not actually going to do anything about VPN because that would be far too complicated to work out and enforce, and it would force them to admit that the law doesn't work, and they don't want to draw attention to that.