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World told to brace for 'severe geomagnetic storm' today - the first in nearly 20 years - which could bring chaos to mobile phone networks, GPS satellites and power grids

The uncommonly powerful solar storm is expected to hit around midday Friday
It follows a series of solar flares that began on Wednesday, tipping officials off
The prospective storm could cause disruptions to GPS, the internet and power

Can also cause Teslas to go out of control and/or spontaneously combust. Can cause battery facilities and transformers to catch fire. Can cause building/bridge collapses through the Hutchison Effect. Airplane crashes and boat crashes due to loss of power/gps. Cause train derailments, again through the Hutchison Effect. Refinery & pipeline fires as well. Watch for sudden large earthquakes. Think of the Obama movie 'The World Left Behind' but not likely that bad as this storm is not on the level of a Carrington event. 5 CME's are heading toward earth which depending on how they hit can amplify the effect.

At least five streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are heading toward Earth, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Friday into the weekend.

With the rise of self-driving car technology, it's possible that computer systems on these vehicles could malfunction due to cosmic rays. What if, during an automated trip, imagery from a camera mounted at the front of the car became corrupted and the on-board computer failed to spot a person walking out in front of the vehicle?

However, the research is yet to be published and he says he's not allowed to reveal what the starting level of accuracy was during the experiments.

Such interventions could make self-driving cars of the future safer but they wouldn't eliminate the possibility of a cosmic ray causing other problems. And this raises an interesting conundrum for insurers.

"In a world of fully autonomous vehicles, how can you prove the accident happened because of cosmic rays?" says Rech. "That is very challenging. I mean, it's impossible, by definition." In ambiguous cases, disputes over whether a human or technology manufacturer – or space weather – was at fault might be difficult to resolve

Impossible to prove but can and does happen. Can even be emulated in a lab setting.

Quote Sources:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13402759/Severe-solar-storm-watch-alert-NOAA.html
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors

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