A Solar Storm Knocked GPS Off by 33 Feet Across the US and Scientists Had Never Seen This Kind of Disruption
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Scientists are warning that powerful solar storms could create serious problems for GPS systems, potentially affecting even autonomous cars that rely on satellite navigation to determine their position on the road. A team of researchers in the United States has analyzed the impact [...] Läs mer...
Geomagnetic storms triggered by violent solar flares are causing deviations exceeding 10 meters in global positioning systems (GPS), threatening autonomous driving and precision agriculture technologies.
The GPS now guides the tractors to the centimeter and promises to orient the cars without a driver. But the Sun, when it unravels, blurs these signals from space. A geomagnetic storm has just proved it on the scale of a continent.
Across the US, GPS systems have been found to experience positioning errors exceeding 10 meters. Researchers reported that the disruption is strong enough to affect precision agricultural equipment and self-driving vehicles.
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