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A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 days ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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The massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 33 feet (10 meters).

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Garbage headline. Self driving cars use GPS for navigation, not collision avoidance. They use lidar, cameras, and radar for this.

Would it make them possibly misnavigate when there are multiple close driveways? Sure. It's not causing crashes though, as evidenced by the lack of crashes caused by this storm.

This article title is deliberately misleading.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

This was my gut feeling, bullshit article that makes no sense.