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You need a continuous local frame of reference to do local navigation based on obstacles. If you're driving down a road and you just passed a lamp post. But suddenly you realize that you're on a different street because your GPS updated, the lamp post that's just behind you is still there and you should remember that and not consider it to be on the other street either.

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