Its a good idea. I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate. I thought toll passes would do this, but looking at the size of the sensors over interstates it isn't so easy.
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Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits
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#22Its a good idea. I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate. I thought toll passes would do this, but looking at the size of the sensors over interstates it isn't so easy.
> I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate.
Are you referring to a state or government tracker on every vehicle? If so, it seems like you're implying that's a good idea. If that's the case, I hope there's some joke in here I'm missing.
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#23The problem is that you need a large percentage of your vehicles equipped with this, because you never know which one will be taking part in a pursuit. And even if you're lucky enough to be taking part in the start of a pursuit with an equipped vehicle, surely the darts don't have a 100% hit rate.
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#24Its a good idea. I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate. I thought toll passes would do this, but looking at the size of the sensors over interstates it isn't so easy.
The NY Civil Liberties Union did find that toll passes are scanned far from actual toll roads. It appears to be used explicitly for surveillance purposes. Stick to cash or bill-by-mail, or connect your reader’s battery with a thumb when you need to use it. https://www.nyclu.org/en/e-zpass-readers
I just leave mine off entirely.
When it fails to scan, they do ALPR to figure out who to send the ticket to, but, before they send a ticket they lookup against the EZPass database to see if your car is in it, and if so, they just debit your account like the tag did scan.
If that happens often enough, they send you a new tag and ask for the broken one back.
Oddly I keep getting defective tags.
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#25[dupe]
Actual article and more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857535
Re: Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits
#26The other day I was driving through a school zone and it had that 25 mph radar screen. Most people did slow down, but it got me thinking. With modern cars being "smart", could govt offer a tax tax break for folks opting into the car sotware capping speeds dynamically?
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#27So how much of Spiderman is now real life?
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#28Why not deploy a reaper drone equipped with R9X? Literally shred the engine of that car.
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#29So how much of Spiderman is now real life?
Not the part about a paid job as a wet film photographer for a print newspaper.
Re: Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits
#30The other day I was driving through a school zone and it had that 25 mph radar screen. Most people did slow down, but it got me thinking. With modern cars being "smart", could govt offer a tax tax break for folks opting into the car sotware capping speeds dynamically?
This might be in the works already: with hybrids + full electric vehicles being increasingly used, the revenue from a fuel tax is dropping. There are regions investigating use-based taxes that track when and where vehicles are used, and assess a tax based on that information.
This is, of course, a frightening proposal for anyone who wants to keep even one shred of privacy, but so it goes ....