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Its determination, based on statistical methods, assumes that the position errors are normally distributed and are often not reflected in actual measurements. As a result of the widespread adoption of this measure, the positioning accuracy of navigation systems is overestimated by 10\u201315%. In this paper, a new method is presented for determining the navigation system positioning accuracy based on a reliability model where the system\u2019s operation and failure statistics are referred to as life and failure times. Based on real measurements, the method proposed in this article will be compared with the classical method (based on the 2DRMS measure). Real (empirical) measurements made by the principal modern navigation positioning systems were used in the analyses: Global Positioning System (GPS) (168\u2019286 fixes), Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) (900\u2019000 fixes) and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) (900\u2019000 fixes). Research performed on real data, many of which can be considered representative, have shown that the reliability method provides a better (compared to the 2DRMS measure) estimate of navigation system positioning accuracy. 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