{"id":130333,"date":"2026-04-03T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=130333"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:48:15","slug":"owengregorian-we-did-not-need-gps-or-ai-for-guided-cruise-missiles-to-work-why-would-you-need-either-for-drones-to-self-navigate-load-a-topographical-map-of-some-kind-tell-it-where-it-is-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=130333","title":{"rendered":"@OwenGregorian We did not need gps or &#8216;ai&#8217; for guided cruise missiles to work \n\nWhy would you need either for drones to self-navigate? \n\nLoad a topographical map of some kind, tell it where it is starting, and lidar, inertial guidance, sonar, etc can guide it plenty accurately"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@OwenGregorian We did not need gps or &#8216;ai&#8217; for guided cruise missiles to work <\/p>\n<p>Why would you need either for drones to self-navigate? <\/p>\n<p>Load a topographical map of some kind, tell it where it is starting, and lidar, inertial guidance, sonar, etc can guide it plenty accurately<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2040032735037620265\">Apr 3, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>April 3, 2026 at 07:44AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@OwenGregorian We did not need gps or &#8216;ai&#8217; for guided cruise missiles to work Why would you need either for drones to self-navigate? Load a topographical map of some kind, tell it where it is starting, and lidar, inertial guidance, sonar, etc can guide it plenty accurately &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Apr 3, 2026 from &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=130333\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@OwenGregorian We did not need gps or &#8216;ai&#8217; for guided cruise missiles to work <\/p>\n<p>Why would you need either for drones to self-navigate? <\/p>\n<p>Load a topographical map of some kind, tell it where it is starting, and lidar, inertial guidance, sonar, etc can guide it plenty accurately<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-130333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130334,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130333\/revisions\/130334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130333"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=130333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}