That's the view from the man who invented GPS, Bradford Parkinson. While a military officer in the US he headed a team to develop the Global Positioning System as an aid to military precision.
As a former combat pilot he was aware of benefits which could come from more closely targeted bombing, including cutting so-called 'collateral damage'.
Parkinson recently commented on the increasing technology towards providing fully automated, or robotic cars, saying it will come through a combination of GPS, radar and other sensors.
California has already made legal provision for the licensing of self-driving vehicles. Google is among a wide range of companies, including carmakers themselves, putting a lot of resources into such cars.
When the first 'Manpack' GPS system was developed by the US military in the 1980s it was a backpack weighing 40lbs and cost $400,000. Now a GPS unit can be smaller than a fingernail and cost a little over a euro to manufacture.
