Do GPS Navigation computers in cars actually help the city tow our cars?
My friend has a Chrysler 300c with a GPS Navigation system. He went to a restaraunt with another of my friends and when they were done eating, walked out to see the 300C being towed by the city.
Apparently this dumbass ran up $1600 in tickets.
He works in mortgages, commission based so he probably didn't have the money to pay them.
My point is that I think his Navi system gave away his position. How else could tow trucks know specifically that his car had $1600 in tickets on it?
Perhaps a cop ran his plate and saw the data? I'm not sure how the system works.
Public Comments
- I heard that it is possible for GPS NAVIGATION systems to be scanned by radar control devices which allows the gov to know if we are speeding or not. - I heard the same thing about cell phones. I'm not sure if they give away our car's positions, but I have heard urban legends that if you don't pay your car note on time, they can use your car's onstar to lock the car doors and disable the engine so you can't drive.
- Yep. That's how they did it. I had a friend that used ONSTAR to drive somewhere using the freeway, and it told him he was doing 65, offroad, for five miles in a compact car. Perhaps his version was a little more advanced... <feeding paranoia> Also, the cameras in picture cell phones actually have a direct video feed to FBI headquarters... In older models, it was a pinhole camera in the mouthpiece, but then someone found one, had to be killed, and the government ordered the cell phone companies to start pushing cell phones that let you take pictures.. that way the camera could be bigger, and wouldn't freak anyone out. J/K (I think...)
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