[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) writes: > I'm not sure how many non-military applications really need 1-meter > or better accuracy ...
Higher accuracy is never bad and once you give people good tools you'll often find that they can now build things they couldn't before. There are quite a few uses for 1-cm and under accuracies in the road-building, track-laying industries. I've seen ads for differentially corrected sensors that are meant to be mounted on the blades of giant road graters. Want your road or tracks smooth with no major undulations? No problem. If low-cost GPS's had similar accuracies I imagine we'd start seeing self-steering cars where you'd drive a route once and the car along with forward collision sensors could steer the same route for you from then on. (If not that, at least blare out a loud warning if you are drifting out of the lane without blinking etc.) I recall driving in snow storms in white-out conditions in New England when such sensors would have been quite handy. Now as to ntp applications, I admit, I'm not sure what I would do with even higher accuracies than the 1uS we now have. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Direct SIP URL Dialing: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
