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Date:         Sat, 13 May 2000 09:38:06 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: GPS
Comments: To: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
In-Reply-To:  <391D53AA.8DF401F7@online.no>
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They use them in big jets (and cruise missiles -- that's why all the fuss
about Selective Availability).  But the receiver will be optimized
differently to some extent depending how fast it's expecting to go.  I
sincerely doubt that GPS per se had anything to do with this.


d


At 09:07 5/13/2000, Per Lindgren wrote:
>I've also read that the GPS systems are no good when traveling over 160
>km/h (100
>mph). This is of course not a problem for any of us, but it was stated in a
>German car test, the navigation system lost track when they tested the
>car's top
>speed on the Autobahn.


David Beierl - Providence, RI
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