What Will You Do Without GPS?

Are the days of paper maps gone? Do you have one? Or have we become so reliant on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to tell us where we are, where we're going, and when we'll get there that a failure would bring us to a standstill? This presentation will discuss the vulnerabilities, risks, and options related to GPS. 

Steven Polunsky (Twitter: @StevenPolunsky) is a research scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute in Austin. A two-time SXSW speaker, he led award-winning initiatives that debuted the use of live spatial data in a legislative hearing and produced the first mobile app of any state legislative committee in the country, and in 2014 he was the first recipient of the Dallas Morning News Open Government Superhero award. He has a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.  

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