Under normal circumstances, it would take the car 45 minutes to reach the boat and the hiker 80 minutes to reach it. However, crossing through trees adds 15 minutes to your journey and mountains add 10 minutes. So, who got there first?
GPS hasn’t always been open to the public, in fact, the public at large could only connect to these satellites in 1983 following a rather disturbing incident. In 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 entered prohibited Soviet airspace and was unfortunately shot down by the Soviet Union, resulting in the deaths of the 269 people on board. As a result of this incident, Ronald Reagan decided to provide the public with access to the US military satellite navigation system known as DNSS.