GPS? Hello, Big Brother

[texasvtak]

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006...headed_tra.php
Just fucking click.

[chessboxer]

f that ish

[accord91lx]

GPS tracking systems... fuck that. Thats the reason I will NEVER buy a vehicle with that "OnStar" or simmilar system installed. I dont need "Big Brother" to unlock my doors for me, shut my engine off if stolen, or track my stolen vehicle. I dont need "Big Brother" to notify the athorities if Im in an accident... I have a cellular phone, I will do it myself. If all new cars were by law equipped with that type of system, I would gut that system the day I brought it home. I remember seeing a commertial on TV about how that "OnStar" checks your vehicle for trouble codes, then emails you if there are any issues. For them to have that big of a reach into the vehicle remotely is amazing. I like to be 100% in control of the vehicle. That is the reason I drive a 5 speed. I love to be in control of HOW and WHEN it shifts. When I put the f22b dohc into my car, I will be running a chipped ECU. Why? Because I control how fuel or timing is administered. I guess that makes me a control freak. So what. FUCK big brother.

[blvs125]

thats shit sucks!!! i have it on my work truck, the company knows exactly where im at at all times if the wanted to know, also the limited the speed limit to 69mph, anything over that my truck will make a beeping tone and after if you dont slow down after 15 secs. then i get written up. out here in los angeles the speed limit on the freeway is 65 and im being pasted up by old ladies and big riggs. thats not cool

[According2Aaron]

That's one reason I drive a '90 Honda and a '78 Ford.

[Maple50175]

It be impossible anyways.

Are they just gonna put one in every car? I dont think so. Im sure ppl would rip them out anwyays.

[NAiL05]

Yea too bad factory systems like that have been doing that for a while.

[Clueless]

great, not only tree huggers found a legal was to tax us out of money even more...what if we automatically get a ticket by the gps system? This blows...

[cp[mike]]

i would be the first one to start a website devoted to disabling/tricking/removing those systems.

[WiKKeDV16]

ROFL!!!

<can see it now


cp[mike]'s how-to on gps removal

cha-ching

[aero]

"Some states are mailing out tickets if you get to the next toll booth too quickly; they can calculate that you must have exceeded the speed limit in getting there that fast."

Yikes, i'd be in trouble. Thankfully if this BS ever goes through, it'd be about 10-20 years off for FL since we are the slow ones. If the world isnt in a nuclear winter by then... GPS tracking wouldnt be so bad (although I'll be moving somewhere that actually gives you "freedom")

[accord91lx]

(although I'll be moving somewhere that actually gives you "freedom")

qft

[GameChewer]

god damn it im fucking pissed fuck that! why is it that they must always find a way to get our money.

[rickyduckworth]

within 25 years, our lives will be severely restricted, i guarantee it........people will suscribe to the "we're all safer" shit, but when everyone's little skeletons come dancing out of their closets, what will they say......if i wanna pull over at wendy's and jerk off to that fiery, pig tailed goddess, then i'm gonna fucking do it whether i'm being watched or not.......

and just like always, those with money will do what they wanna do

[4CYLPOWER92]

I don't believe that we the people will ever allow the governement to control us to that extent. There will be a civil war before that happens.

GPS is like being in prison. They know where you are going at all times, and how fast you are going. They could give you tickets for speeding, as others have said, and could even implicate you in other crimes. Imagine you are at a store, and someone gets murdered there seconds later. GPS says you were there, so now you are a suspect. Maybe the real murderer got there on a bicycle.

They could also sell your GPS info to companies that are interested in where you eat, where you shop, and where you go for vacation.

I would like to think there would be an uprising, before we would allow this. Hopefully, it would be found unconstitutional.

My employer requires that I carry a cell phone with GPS software on it. I can tell you that it is not very accurate. The amount of miles it says I travel are much less than the miles actually traveled. Sometimes the address it says I'm at, is not where I'm at.