GPS direction/ distance problems

PaulS:

You could be travelling backwards, looking toward your original location, but the GPS would not know this, it would display you moving toward your destination.

No, it wouldn't. It would show a vector moving away from the target. Now, it would not know, or care, which way you are facing, or whether you are moving in the direction you are facing, or not. All it knows is which way you are moving.

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