Submitted by stuki on Sun, 10/07/2012 - 14:58. Permalink
Driverless cars need not be any more dependent on GPS than human driven cars are on it. It is just a navigation tool. And, in honesty, neither does flying drones. But making the drones dependent on only GPS as a positioning aid, is infinitely simpler and cheaper than having them read the terrain the way an experienced pilot with a cockpit full of overlapping aids would.
Comment: Driverless cars need not be
Driverless cars need not be
Driverless cars need not be any more dependent on GPS than human driven cars are on it. It is just a navigation tool. And, in honesty, neither does flying drones. But making the drones dependent on only GPS as a positioning aid, is infinitely simpler and cheaper than having them read the terrain the way an experienced pilot with a cockpit full of overlapping aids would.