Re: Big Brother is Watching
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Schonyenko2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Up side: If you are in a crash with air bag deployment, it's automatically called into the 911 system. It gives location of the incident, and tries to contact the occupants. Relays real time info for responding emergency crews.

Down side: Potential for abuse/invasion of privacy/hacking into the system, etc.

Nothing more that I could really say without pushing the bounds of being political. </div></div>

Say more Ken.
Anything with this much potential for abuse will get abused.
For me, it is simple. I don't believe the good outweighs the bad.
Our 19 year old cannot to this day parallel park. He wasn't required to for the driver's test. I can't believe they give a driver's license to someone who cannot parallel park. Guess he is waiting for one with park assist.

Re: Big Brother is Watching
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Follow the money.. </div></div>

GPS tracking devices are there to limit cost to insurers and manufacturers, nothing else. They market these as &quot;safety&quot; promoting devices so as to get an already not-paying-attention public to say, &quot;Yeah, whatever.&quot; Commercial airplanes have similar monitoring systems that track just about everything you can imagine: speed/overspeed, flap extension/overspeed, whether the airplane is on a 'stabilized' approach, etc., etc. This is used as a safety tool but the reality is that its main purpose is to assign blame/liability should an accident occur. Manufacturers want to limit payout, as do insurers, and that's the main motivator behind GPS and data tracking in vehicles.

Follow the money. Truer words were never spoken.

Re: Big Brother is Watching
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Follow the money.. </div></div>

GPS tracking devices are there to limit cost to insurers and manufacturers, nothing else. They market these as &quot;safety&quot; promoting devices so as to get an already not-paying-attention public to say, &quot;Yeah, whatever.&quot; Commercial airplanes have similar monitoring systems that track just about everything you can imagine: speed/overspeed, flap extension/overspeed, whether the airplane is on a 'stabilized' approach, etc., etc. This is used as a safety tool but the reality is that its main purpose is to assign blame/liability should an accident occur. Manufacturers want to limit payout, as do insurers, and that's the main motivator behind GPS and data tracking in vehicles.

Follow the money. Truer words were never spoken. </div></div>



So...maybe we need to find a way to limit the amount of money we give the insurance companies in premiums.

Re: Big Brother is Watching
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: GaryC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So...maybe we need to find a way to limit the amount of money we give the insurance companies in premiums. </div></div>

How about not running 43 Geico commercials during every NASCAR or NFL event? Think that would lower premiums a bit?

The web tracks you, your SmartPhone tracks you, now your car can track you.

It's creepy that when I look for a product on Amazon, for the next 2 weeks every web site I visit, and some forums, have ads for that product. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

I used my SmartPhone to search for a Home Depot address. For the next two days, I saw Home Depot ads on my desktop PC. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

Yes, Big Brother is watching. And they're watching this thread. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]