Forget the fifth wheel: How satellites changed road testing for good

Forget the fifth wheel: How satellites changed road testing for good

Modern telemetry makes extracting the 0-60mph time a breeze - but the tech can still bite back When he was a fresh-faced doctoral candidate, one of my university professors was involved in the early stages of civilian GPS application. His work centred on how to utilise this remarkable tech outside the secretive military domain. I remember him telling us about when, one morning in the 1990s, he had woken up to carry out his usual checks and disco…