They have a solution. Throw away your, previously, good GPS and buy a new one.
Then call it economic development!
That is the way government works. They made perfectly good analog TVs obsolete with a stroke of the pen, and owners were forced to go buy new (no, those set top boxes don’t work, they fry the TV hooked to them in 90 days).
They also did it on analog cell phones. Analog cellemetry alarm devices, same thing on aircraft emergency transmitters and aircraft radios.
Just throw your old GPS away and buy the “New and Improved” version. It is the American way.
I’m all for this new technology.
It will mess up the cell phone tracking!
i.e. the 2013 version of The Consumer Voluntary Technological Upgrade Act of 2012. Just cross out “CFL bulbs” and replace it with “new GPS system”.
(Previous versions regarded “voluntary” upgrades to HDTV sets, airbags, 1.6 gallon toilets, “high efficiency” washers and dryers, etc.)