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GPS Vehicle Tracking; Do You Know Where Your Teen Driver Is Now?
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Yosemite Man
2004-02-01 00:07:09 UTC
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athol
2004-02-01 03:36:53 UTC
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Real-Time control of your vehicle?s speed, direction of travel, and
location. GPS tracking is now available via the internet.
So, while on the wrong side of the road overtaking at WOT with an
oncoming truck just having appeared around a curve, mommy decides
to drop the car's speed by magic remote control. What a great
road safety initiative!
TAKE BACK CONTROL! Direct-Track satellites let you know where your
vehicle is at all times and it allows you to control speed, door lock,
and shut off. The Best Anti-theft device.
Yay. Just wait for your favourite goverment to decide that these devices
are a good way of booking you for speeding...

mumble mumble f*ing spam mumble mumble.
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Another Tom
2004-02-01 19:43:46 UTC
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Post by athol
Real-Time control of your vehicle?s speed, direction of travel, and
location. GPS tracking is now available via the internet.
So, while on the wrong side of the road overtaking at WOT with an
oncoming truck just having appeared around a curve, mommy decides
to drop the car's speed by magic remote control. What a great
road safety initiative!
TAKE BACK CONTROL! Direct-Track satellites let you know where your
vehicle is at all times and it allows you to control speed, door lock,
and shut off. The Best Anti-theft device.
Yay. Just wait for your favourite goverment to decide that these devices
are a good way of booking you for speeding...
mumble mumble f*ing spam mumble mumble.
The police can get that info via the black box

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/blackbox/
athol
2004-02-02 05:27:56 UTC
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Post by Another Tom
The police can get that info via the black box
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/blackbox/
The information in that black box is thoroughly unreliable.
Recognition in court indicates a total failure to understand the
practical limitations of the technology.

For example, if the rear wheels are airborne, the "vehicle speed"
recorded will be the speed that the drive wheels were spinning at,
not the actual vehicle speed.

I'd have to dig up some links, but I've seen quite a bit explained
about the unreliability of data recorded by these devices.

Also, looking at that article, they fail to mention that the final
positions of the cars and the nature and extent of damage would have
allowed the estimation of vehicle speeds at the time of impact... It
isn't rocket science, really. They are using an unreliable electronic
device because (a) it suits them, and (b) it's easy.

Oh, and neither of my cars has such a black box...
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I'm a Libran Engineer. I don't argue, I discuss.
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