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Old 08-28-2017, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by cosmicfish View Post


I think the autonav is a great example. 1980 manufacturing technology absolutely cannot manufacture 2020+ technology, but there is also no way to make something like the autonav without using 2020+ technology! You can't buy a non-GPS system today that can do what the autonav does, so what is the argument for making the autonav in 1980 using 1980 technology? The only way the autonav exists is if TMP spent the time to produce everything they need to build a 2020+ computer and gyros and power systems and everything else. Because otherwise the autonav is the size of a van and is pretty inaccurate, because that is what you can do in the 1980's with 1980's manufacturing technology.
This is simply not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automo...igation_system
1981: Honda's Electro Gyro-Cator was the first commercially available car navigation system. It used inertial navigation systems, which tracked the distance traveled, the start point, and direction headed.[4] It was also the first with a map display.[ Cartographies of Travel and Navigation, James R. Akerman, p.279]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak

So a system very much like the autonav was COMMERCIALLY available for simple cars. So unless the car is towing your hypothetical van does not exist. You are going to tell me how the Gyro-Cator is in no way as good as the autonav. To that I will respond with "So what-the Autonav is not a commercial product and doesn't need to be cheap enough to be profitable."

Suffice to say an autonav could have been built with 1980s technology, because it was. This doesn't include any of the systems used by aircraft, submarines, missiles or any military hardware, which would have been much different solutions then one designed and built and installed in a car!
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