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DO GPS DEVICES GIVE AWAY the POSITION OF OUR CAR TO TOWING COMPANIES?

My friend Julio took his girlfriend Carletta to Pizzeria Uno recently and as he walked out, his Chrysler 300c was being towed. Basically, this moron ran up $1600 in tickets There was no cop car around to call the car in so I assume that the GPS Navigation device had something to do with it. Does the city have a way of tracking cars? I have heard rumors that Navigation systems and cellphones can give your position, speed and orientation to the authorities. Do towing companies have some type of tracking device?

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They can only do that if the people trying to track it have the right equipment and know the settings of your equipment. More than likely that wasn't the case. Some cars do however have tracking devices on them like the vehicles with onstar in them that is a tracking device, but I serously doubt that the cops went to that extreme. There probably was a cop who saw the car called it in then left.
Auto location systems have been around longer than the modern GPS system like seen in hand-held units. Cadillac developed the Norstar System for their vehicles which did two things. The Norstar connected the vehicle's electronic operating system to Cadillac's central offices in the mid-west. This meant that through the system, the car was constantly being "tuned", and the vehicles were touted as being able to run for up to 100,000 miles without needing a tune up. What they didn't tell anyone at the time is that the system also used a GPS system to locate the cars too.
I don't think GPS had anything to do with it. A Police Officer might of ran his tag and it came back with a hit due to the unpaid traffic tickets.
Most GPS NavSystems are passive - meaning that they merely receive. There are some active GPS system which can transmit locations via small embedded cellphones. Contrary to the BS that cellphone companies have been feeding everyone, since the development of cellphone technology in the late 1970's you have been able to track someone rudimentary with a cellphone. With even newer technologies, and the number of new cell phone towers, you can track someone to as close as 300 feet. (simple trig).
This is a possibility, but most likely this vehicle was on a list issued from the city as a vehicle that was a repeat offender... The general public does not know it but law enforcement can use the gps tracking device to track a vehicle that they think is violating the law...usually done with drug cases...having a gps in your vehicle implies your consent to be tracked...