Did you ever hear the saying; "that's a car accident waiting to happen" and have you pondered the uncanny being similar to truth to Murphy's Law "anything that can fail, goes wrong" or its corollary "and, it's going to make a mistake at worst possible time," I bet you've? Engineers like to joke about things such as that but under their breath they heed the warning, build in safe guards and emphasize on the details - how would you think I understand this? Maybe in the long run it is a good thing we observe the details, as the users would just like the damn aspect to work rather than break.
Indeed, I think all of us realize by now that fairly soon our cars and delivery trucks will drive themselves, buses, trolleys, trains, and airliners will run autonomously, in the beginning we will never trust such technology, but because the information prove we're safer with such artificial intelligent transportation devices than human drivers, we'll probably acquiesce with the safety value. Still, what happens eventually when something goes terribly wrong, and it may very well, and it also might be at rush-hour about the busiest day of the entire year - Murphy remember?
There was an interesting video online from Los Alamos National Lab titled; "Space Weather Data Drop" which was published on January 30, 2017 which stated:
"Space weather data collected via instruments on GPS satellites has been created accessible to researchers initially. The instruments were developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and ride aboard 23 with the nation's a lot more than 30 on-orbit GPS satellites. If you multiply the amount of satellites collecting data together with the number of years they've been doing the work, it totals greater than 167 years."
The review of it also noted: The information gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements that they may use to improve understand how space weather works and how far better to protect critical infrastructure, like the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, satnav systems, and also the electrical energy grid.
Right so, 'what if' all of the transportation on earth suddenly loses its navigation link? You believe gridlock at rush hour is detrimental now, your so-called freeways will turn into giant parking a lot of crashed cars and systems that turn themselves off - yes, an engineered safety feature - remember we will need to cover our butts and produce in that safety feature - as well as the devil will likely be installing the hot sun's solar flare but in addition in the information your car's software code. Please consider all this and think on it.
