(CNN) -- New technology to modernize America's aging air traffic system promises to help air traffic controllers, and may have prevented a recent tarmac collision between two aircraft at a New York airport, say experts.
As part of its "NextGen" plan to overhaul traffic management, the FAA plans to replace its current radar tracking system by 2020 with a more accurate GPS-based network.
With the new technology, pilots and controllers can see surrounding aircraft in real time -- without the 10-second delay that comes with the half-century old radar technology.
Hold on are you shitting me? They don't use GPS yet? My phone has GPS. What the hell are air traffic control rooms are still using radars for? This is fucking amazing news.
So some guy really just sits in the room and watches radar blips just hoping that planes carrying hundreds of people won't crash into each other? "Awwwwww whoawhoawhoawhoa WHOA! That was close. Man! Get on the tin can and tell Flight 88 to play the lottery tomorrow." I don't think I'm gonna ever fly again until 2020. And what the hell is going to take that long anyway? It is already in my cell phone! ...not bragging, just saying.
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