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* Speedometer error - 1 messages, 1 author
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* How to do Everything With Your GPS - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Speedometer error
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/dd0e0cb203486443?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 4:21 pm
From: Nasty
Tegger wrote:
> Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com> wrote in
> news:gbjhg5taanhs2lvgc7jktvs0grhlf8t59v@4ax.com:
>
>> Thus spake Tegger <invalid@invalid.inv> :
>>
>
>>> GPS's are not definitively accurate. There is a fairly large built-in
>>> error in all GPS's. GPS satellites are the property of the US
>>> Department of Defense, and the military doesn't want you having the
>>> same thing they've got for reasons of national security. This is
>>> outlined in all the new-car PDI docs issued by Honda for vehicles that
>>> have NAVI.
>> Way incorrect. SA/CA went out long ago. During Desert Storm they had
>> to disable it because the DoD couldn't get enough MilSpec GPS units
>> and was buying civilian units from Magellan.
>>
>
>
> Then how come all the 2010 PDI docs say this?:
>
> "The GPS (global positioning system) satellites used by the navigation
> system are operated by the U.S. Department of Defense. For security
> reasons, certain inaccuracies are built into the GPS. This can cause
> occasional positioning errors of up to several hundred feet. If the
> navigation system indicates your position incorrectly, wait several seconds
> until it corrects itself. The system may also correct itself after you make
> a turn or cross a road."
>
> If your reported location is incorrect, then it stands to reason that
> reported distances may be incorrect as well.
>
>
Considering that my GPS's both know exactly where my house is, and tell
me to turn the wrong way at the end of my driveway onto the north/south
road that runs in front of my house, I gotta think there's some merit to
this.
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TOPIC: How to do Everything With Your GPS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/c6785968c5228e8f?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Nov 24 2009 1:10 am
From: jolly
How to do Everything With Your GPS
http://www.techespot.com/2009/05/how-to-do-everything-with-your-gps.html
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