Why The US Military Made GPS Free-To-Use

Hilariously, Russian GPS is shit as shown in the Ukraine war. The guided missiles the Russian's are using are... shall we say, inaccurate.

Time is slower on earth compared to space

en a thgk vezeto nagyon nem bizok a gps-ben sok a pontatlal biztos pont!!!

New technology would advance and everyone with tech gadgets could be tracked anywhere in the world. Win win situation. Not military but the government made this call. Sorry!

The US taxpayers yet again carrying global infrastructure

One of the few good and selfless things the US did for the world 👏 Now if only US overcomes its lust for oil.

Number one Joe Rogan is an open racist however I just seen him on commercials so obviously support him and Donald Trump number to the United States military illegally stolen the patent from a black woman and her husband painstakingly laboring overtime late-night hours on holiday with no pay increase to show for her work hashing out mathematical numbers that otherwise are normal military grade General white man could not fathom yeah they stole from her and so that she don't get the credit they made it free for everyone you guys are some devils

Who the hell is US military to make something free ..... we are already free to do anything ( at least which doesn't hurt somebody ) ..... !

Shipping, especially the fishing boats, soon used the lighthouses as a reference to compensate for the 100m deviation.

Beacauee, after bush junior, all the Americans turn into morons somehow.

Time dilation is such a cool. We can affect how time passes based on speed and gravity. The one thing binding is all together isn’t fixed but dependent on affects we can measure.

To abuse it, its never trully free. They made chips and tech companies record us constantly, even if we decline so, it just doesnt show it to you then, but it still follows and overhears you continiously. IT LIED. They are lying and being dishonest towards you

I'm doing this for my physics school assessment do you have any sources? (Real Engineering)

This is why every American should get a free nuclear weapon.

I am 100% sure that autonomous tractors would be fine with INS navigation only. Even camera imaging would be enough.

"Why the US taxpayers paid for something they then got to use"

machine minds have to think about civil social lives also and how their machine dicks can be used to make it better .. only i seems to be thinking on those lines rest are engrossed in their pet whims fancies only,. same sattleites can be aligned with new id's which then tracks everything from head counts strictly monitored to financial social civil life safety of entire world's public in each of their Nations... good fair just societies are rebuild and can be build just like chaos misery corruption got going..

this is young voice over mind washed as usual Gadhe! us taxpayers paying for anything is a myth.. its your central print mint factory which pays for all expenses.... us tax payers cut incomes paychecks even from nano pay checks hardly make the amount which is like salt in dough... in which wealthy companies or private wealth already had from Trump taxes written off his first executive signature in this both so called opposite parties were very agreebale, eager behind curtains deals already made....and how do you calculate tax income just take ball park population and assume how many are in work and wages levels and then calculate taxes returns all of this can be actually streamlined with head counts new trackbale monitored tech id's new data centers opened each area just like social welfae office or post offices rather they have to be converted into new formats and thenabsolutely clear picture emerges.... every Big spending iincluding never ending black holes of armed forces expenses are paid by mint print factories asswipe notes... why are they not converting to new id with head count systems? well, then their smelly chaddis are going to be 'expose' in truth, which lobbies driven "tatti" streaky chaddis do not want to'expose'in this new tech driven method, you social security number along with your mug, now its just a tattred little paper slip cannot be used because like a blip it shall warn in data centre screens and nor your financial entitlments can be taken away again it shal 'beep-beep' in monitored data centres, along with your bank accounts reality paychecks to rest...and in your death that number shall on screen just end beeping and not to be given to anybody else. This is how you end chaos misery corruption not leaving public's lives and shrouded in all bad ass doing which then get away with everything..and think what kind of new work oppertunity for masses this method is going to generate.. this is just one new way... there are plenty more ideas for work generations... for that i need to be paid consultation fee after all i have to make living also....but like all good souls i can give few ideas for free also:)

I’m honestly so glad they chose this

GPS is just constant triangulation signals, the real calculation is in the GPS device which is a receiver and doesn't talk to the satellites. So it was always going to be free. But it's nice to take credit I guess??? Opening up the internet/web is a much more significant gesture than GPS, which also has similar origins.

So you would become dependent on it and forget how to read a map

free ?

This guy , not when ur high,

fhis was made by the us. don’t use metric

Yep, the US tax payers picking up the tab for the world...again.

You missed the bit about early GPS and the control room at Davis Airfield. Having worked for a while in Colorado Springs, it was pretty common knowledge ( or urban legend perhaps) that a 24 hour, 3 shift monitor was in place to "reset" the time / distance shift from ground to satellite level. It was allegedly 2 metres of accuracy every 6 hours, with a pretty simply "push here" reset button. Given the content of your video, it looks as though the principle (if not distances) might have been fact, rather than fiction?

Free to use? Wonder why India created it's own GPS.

its simple they made it free so cell phone company's would implement it thus allowing them to track us

I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I think a modern phone uses a number of different systems to find your location.

Driverless tractors do not exist out side of the lab.

You probably need to explain how the International Space Station can use GPS....at 254 miles above the Earth. NAVSTAR is at an orbit of 12,500 miles which is 600 miles higher than normal satellites. Do we need GPS past the MOON and even Mars???

nothing's for free

ez. so our enemies would get used to using it. then when they piss us off be encrypt the signal and just attack them while all their gps based weapons are useless

Why can’t we see any satellites on any footage of the earth? Look up how many satellites we supposedly have.

Ground positioning system. 🤭

The intent was to make people dependant on it. This model is similar to PayPal, visa, etc.: we make everything convenient for you but can shut you down if we don’t like you

All most every human being has a cell phone ? Great way to see what we all do .

To spy 😂😂😂😂😂, are we that dumb as people ?

ehhhh, a bit of a soft analysis. Does not go deep enough into answering its own question - why the US Military made GPS available for civilians. Surely Reigan has not made it available just because of a korean airplane error. Even more, Reigan likely has just signed the document, but was not the driving force for the change......

Wait ... Earth isn't a sphere. It isn't flat either: it's kind of off-round. Look it up: "The Earth is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid." Doesn't that affect GPS calculation?

As a grateful Canadian I have always said that America is the most generous country on earth 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Drones only need 3 satellites 4 is helpful for accurate height detection 6 is overkill. Barometric sensors can do height detection and optical flow can replace satellite usage all together plus many other technologies such as radar, sonar, LiDAR, and localized gps using transmitters on the ground. GPS is helpful for drones but not required and many don’t have them. Including some drones made by dji such as the spark. Not to mention you can determine position fairly well by recording relative sensors and doing math to calculate position over time such as gyroscopic sensors and accelerometers.

Military didn’t make GPS. Military has No manufacturing capacity.

Ok, I admit I didn't play the video but the answer is because the defense/intelligence establishment wanted lots of noise within the system to hide operations. Traffic becomes cover and concealment.

If you want to know why they really didn't it was aggregation of information everybody is tracked everywhere. And what better way to have it hidden in plain sight for the public. Just as Facebook history shows it was CIA operations denied by the US Congress. So then became a private company under the name Facebook