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Tryingtoheal

GPS car tracking plus

Fist time I have heard of these GPS devices that track cars & enable a lender to turn off the engine if a payment is late. These are primarily used by sub-prime lenders.

Our newspaper did a story on them.
I read in another article that

some new car dealers put these in to deter thefts. This is the only article I could find with a picture. I'm looking for a tech article.

Most of us could not handle a test drive with this device on a car. Where are our rights?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123794137545832713.html

Kathy

Marc Martin

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On September 22, "Tryingtoheal [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Most of us could not handle a test drive with this device on a car. Where
> are our rights?

Are you sure that most of us would not be able to tolerate such a device?
I've seen people say that the biggest problem with GPS units is NOT the
GPS receiver, but rather the Blutooth that comes with it.

Marc

Tryingtoheal

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For me it would be the Blutooth.

Kathy

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Marc Martin [via ES] <[hidden email]> wrote:

On September 22, "Tryingtoheal [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Most of us could not handle a test drive with this device on a car. Where
> are our rights?

Are you sure that most of us would not be able to tolerate such a device?
I've seen people say that the biggest problem with GPS units is NOT the
GPS receiver, but rather the Blutooth that comes with it.

Marc

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elihme

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A GPS unit that can be used for tracking a car cannot be your usual GPS receiver. Most include a transmitter too.

Marc Martin

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On September 23, "elihme [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> A GPS unit that can be used for tracking a car cannot be your usual GPS
> receiver. Most include a transmitter too.

Yes, I just looked this up. It appears that there would be a cellphone network
transmitter associated with GPS tracking. So your car would have a 2G or 3G
cellphone transmitter in it for the tracking function. With the transmissions
either occurring "on demand" (when requested by whoever is tracking you),
or in some regular intervals.

Marc