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A '''Global Positioning System''', ([[TV]]: ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'') or '''GPS''', was a device that determined its user's location and provided navigational directions. Many [[car]]s in the [[21st century]] had | A '''Global Positioning System''', ([[TV]]: ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'') or '''GPS''', was a device that determined its user's location and provided navigational directions. Many [[car]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') and [[Mobile phone|mobile phones]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') in the [[21st century]] had GPS systems installed in them, and the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] had the ability to track GPS signals. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'') | ||
Cars with [[ATMOS]] installed had a built-in GPS which could not be disabled. The system, at least when set to do so, specifically went against any orders the driver gave it. The [[Sontaran]]s behind ATMOS were able to use this to control cars into killing their drivers. The GPS always said, "You have reached your final destination," before the death(s) of the driver (and sometimes passengers). When one such ATMOS car was being driven by the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Ross Jenkins]], the car was driven into the river. The Doctor manipulated it into letting them out by telling it to drive into the river, which the GPS system, as programmed, went against. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | Cars with [[ATMOS]] installed had a built-in GPS which could not be disabled. The system, at least when set to do so, specifically went against any orders the driver gave it. The [[Sontaran]]s behind ATMOS were able to use this to control cars into killing their drivers. The GPS always said, "You have reached your final destination," before the death(s) of the driver (and sometimes passengers). When one such ATMOS car was being driven by the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Ross Jenkins]], the car was driven into the river. The Doctor manipulated it into letting them out by telling it to drive into the river, which the GPS system, as programmed, went against. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | ||
By [[2020]], [[Mobile phone|mobile phones]] had GPS installed in them, which [[Daniel Barton]] was able to use to track the location of [[Ryan Sinclair]], [[Graham O'Brien]], and [[Yasmin Khan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') | |||
[[Geoff Bluth]] was [[car|driving]] in a [[snow]]storm when his GPS failed. He called his [[hotel]] for directions, but was abducted by an odd man in a pinstriped suit and [[Hat|bowler hat]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Attack of the Snowmen (short story)|Attack of the Snowmen]]'') | [[Geoff Bluth]] was [[car|driving]] in a [[snow]]storm when his GPS failed. He called his [[hotel]] for directions, but was abducted by an odd man in a pinstriped suit and [[Hat|bowler hat]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Attack of the Snowmen (short story)|Attack of the Snowmen]]'') | ||