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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[I doubt any of the incidents shown in the gallery were caused by inaccurate GPS positioning, more likely a problem with the data in the maps or software on the GPS device.<br><br>Also, they were caused by people being retarded.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[wrs589]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 19th 2009 4:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[I my self have had problems with GPS. At certain Times of the day. It's not a software issue. It stated showing me driveing trough buildings off of the Highway. You can't rely 100% you need to use a little common sense with them.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[G.A.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 6:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[You're right, those are software issues - because I had those with mapquest long before we started using GPS itself.  I've had Mapquest take me in circles that never end, and both mapquest and GPS told me to take a circle onto a main interstate, get off, get back on, then go back to the original road I was on.  The software they use is very similar.  <br><br>Common sense is important at any time you use something like this.<br><br>ANd the AF hasn't upgraded the satellites cause they have to have money to do that.  They've been busy fighting wars with spare change.  Makes it a little tough to replace satellite systems.  ANd how come tomtom and the others aren't sharing - give a little money to use the systems they are hooked into?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MsIsis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 1:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[I may agree with it being that the maps on the device not being updated manually.  This should be done frequently through the home page for the product.  Most of them are free for TomToms, I know.  Some never knew they could be updated..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fabzot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 3:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was actually about to comment and say exactly that last line. Not caused by GPS. Caused by people NOT LOOKING WHERE THEY'RE GOING.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cameron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 3:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not sure? How are you not sure whether you use a GPS or not.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[angie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 8:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[I thought the same thing!  I'm quite concerned about the 92 people who responded that they don't know if they use a GPS.  (Please get off the road and get a clue!)  lol  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 10:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[Accidents such as those shown were not created by GPS failure.  They were caused by idiotic drivers who had their heads up their butts.<br><br>Before those dummies had GPS, they probably had to turn their road maps upside down if they were traveling south.<br><br>You just can't cure stupidity.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 8:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you need a GPS to get around, you probably shouldn't  attempt  to control a 4,000 lb machine.  The skill set  required to control a motor vehicle are more complex than those required for map reading.<br><br><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[thdpkr01]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 8:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[First intelligent comment on this board.  Those who rely on this type of technology are sheeple, and probably want chips implanted in their heads.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[P. Rockwell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 9:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[Its  pretty stupid of you to think people shouldnt be using a GPS. Some of us, yes myself, drive  200-250 miles A DAY and see 10 different customers a day in  areas I have never been too before that are miles away from my office. If I had to read a map, I wouldnt be paying attention to the road now would I, I would be reading a map. And it would take 3 times as long to get where I needed to go. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bldlt1234]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 26th 2009 5:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[exactly. how can people rely on this crap 24/7]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ddwag1]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 21st 2009 7:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[GPS's in aircraft have a function referred to as RAIM, vehicles on the ground do not. The RAIM will let you know if there is a position error from where the GPS receiver actually is rather than where it thinks it's location is.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 8:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[G.A. should try learning to use spellcheck before a GPS device.<br>My handheld Garmin is GREAT!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 9:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[There will always be dummies that will drive off a cliff if told to. Those of you who say that anyone who needs GPS shouldn't be driving--well, you must not do much traveling is all I can say. I suppose you have built in knowledge of every major city here and in Europe.<br>I just moved to Pittsburgh and a more confusing city, I've ever seen -- (and I have lived in many) when I went there for a look-see before moving I knew I would have to buy a GPS.  And I have found that people who were born and raised in Pittsburgh don't know their way around!  I find that incredible, but I can see why. You're driving along on one street and suddenly it turns into another street and you never turned off of the first! Now that's the worst planning I have ever seen. -- just FYI--- the most logically planned city is Miami. If you can count, you can get anywhere.  Avenues run North-South, Streets run East-West.<br> <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Dykes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 9:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[oh, i loved pittburgh i lived there 15 years ago and miss it but the streets where wild they whould go from one name to another then you would be driving on another street and all of a sudden theres that other street following on another street...LOL ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[me]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 11:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[You think you're confused. !  I live in Pittsburgh, and our biggest beef is  the lack of  signs.  Sometimes there is one, sometimes there isn't.  Even the GPS has broken down and cried on occasion.  I turn off the sound and follow the big white arrow---the names of the streets or roads appear at the top of the GPS screen.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gloria Krawczyk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 3:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[I rode in a cab last year, and the cabbie had a GPS and the address i gave him, the GPS was off by about a block!  WTF??]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TROY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 9:09AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[What about all the other countries of the world who use our GPS system? All cruise ships including the new Queen Mary 2 and and airlines from all over the world count on the system that US taxpayers built and maintain. Do they contribute to the cost of such a vital and expensive system?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Dalkran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 20th 2009 9:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/05/19/gps-satellites-could-break-down-by-2010/</guid><description><![CDATA[Richard Dalkran-> Spoken like a typical ignorant American. Europe and Russia are building and maintaining their own systems, since the USAF has not been willing to relinquish any control of the GPS system. Google Galileo, GLONASS and EGNOS if you don't know what I'm talking about, which I wouldn't be at all surprised if you didn't.<br><br>It would serve you right if the GPS system falters and you'll have to come crying to Europe.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Renzi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 7th 2009 9:20AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
