Do you have a GPS?

| Friday, September 9, 2011
By Courtney A. Parker


My husband and I have an ongoing, friendly argument as to who gets lost the most. It's pretty much even, I suppose. We'd bring anything that could be useful, and just take off when we go on our road excursions, which by the way, we love to do.But on those occasions that we have to find a client's office, or a specific location in a city we don't know, it is challenging at best. On one occasion, we'd gone astray in a major city and appeared in part of a town that was unsafe. Because of that incident, immediately the day after, we acquired a GPS system. My husband and I do not want it to ever happen for the second time.

GPS means Global Positioning System. The Defense Department of the United States first introduced this system with 24 satellites that transmit signals. There are almost thirty satellites as to date, that are active in precise location determination, employed in the areas of maritime, aviation, land surveys, and others.

The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy had this navigational system coming from the satellites since 1973 and became the foundation of new advances in that technology. At first, the chief purpose of the GPS concept was to provide the U.S. military resources from precise directions through the radio, that is what the National Research Council's Committee on the future of the GPS stated. Noticeably, more ordinary citizens have been using the Global Positioning System technology after its many improvements as compared to people in the armed forces. The technology of GPS was unveiled at the time of the Gulf War in 1991 and was highly commended.

Now, in the civilian sector, it is helping save lives, helping society in various ways and providing jobs. You don't have to worry in getting lost because not too soon, maybe we'll have credit cards that work as a GPS with technology advancing in big leaps right now.

Other uses of the GPS technology include directional assistance in emergency vehicles to speed up rescue, finding vessels missing at sea, tracking device by delivery companies and public transportation on their fleets to provide prompt service, aerial navigation, dusting crops, aerial photos, and surveillances. The GPS system is likewise used in the field of seismology.

Private citizens find it very advantageous in their vehicles. That is in addition to designing roads, finding forest fires and developing aeronautics. Car manufacturers are now creating cars that have built-in GPS devices. However, if your car doesn't have it, just acquire one and place it in your car.

This is just a small indication of a larger possibility, in view of the fact that GPS devices in use to date is assessed to have exceeded two billion dollars in the whole world and still on the rise. Maybe ten years from now, it could even exceed thirty billion dollars.

My husband and I are now at ease that we have this GPS to direct us when we're off to see our customer at his/her place and we'd still be on schedule, or in case there's an emergency, we would easily be found, or if we get lost, we could just redirect ourselves with the GPS to find our way back. Yes at times, my husband and I just like to go wherever we feel like going without knowing where we'll end up.We just get in the car and go, and wherever we decide to stop is okay with us. Knowing that there's a GPS in our car surely reassures us that we're in good hands.




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