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Scary thought concerning GPS and speeding tickets.

steeltoe1978steeltoe1978 Member Posts: 3,248
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
I was driving home from a family get together, and I had the (newly bought) GPS on just for the heck of it... my wife saw that it would display the speed of your car, and she said "How much longer until they require these GPS in all cars, and when it registers that you're going over the speed limit, you get a ticket in the mail?" I said that it probably won't happen anytime soon, because your GPS can't testify against you in court (much like the photo of your license plate if you "run a red light" where they have a camera... those are easy to beat", but I'm no lawyer.) It's a scary thought... do you see this in the future?
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  • spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some car rental companies are already using GPS to levy "speeding surcharges" and also surcharges based on leaving a specific area (like crossing state lines or whatever).

    Here's an article that says the car rental companies are running into legislative efforts to prevent them from doing it.

    http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/blt/2005-07-08/yen.shtml
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  • steeltoe1978steeltoe1978 Member Posts: 3,248
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spurgemastur
    Some car rental companies are already using GPS to levy "speeding surcharges" and also surcharges based on leaving a specific area (like crossing state lines or whatever).

    Here's an article that says the car rental companies are running into legislative efforts to prevent them from doing it.

    http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/blt/2005-07-08/yen.shtml


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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Speeding tickets will be a thing of the past when automobiles become automatic. You punch in your destination and off you go. Guided by markers in the road and speed goverened by road conditions and traffic all under control of a Central Highway and Traffic (CHaT).

    It will be sold to the public by zero accidents (yeah, right), better economy of fuel, no traffic jams, and time spent with family or reading, all while riding in the comfort of your vehicle.

    There are already test being done with the buried markers to guide your vehicle.
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    Speeding tickets will be a thing of the past when automobiles become automatic. You punch in your destination and off you go. Guided by markers in the road and speed goverened by road conditions and traffic all under control of a Central Highway and Traffic (CHaT).

    It will be sold to the public by zero accidents (yeah, right), better economy of fuel, no traffic jams, and time spent with family or reading, all while riding in the comfort of your vehicle.

    There are already test being done with the buried markers to guide your vehicle.


    fine by me....I'd rather sleep
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nobody had thought of it until you posted this. Now that you have given them the idea, the law will be written as soon as everybody returns from the Fourth Holiday, and will go into effect on 1 August.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This is already in use. On cars that have computers, after a crash the insurance company sends their guy down to the tow yard and downloads the car computer. The car computer says the last speed recorded was 85 mph, and you told police you were doing 50 mph.

    Insurance canceled, cause you told a lie.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have a friend at work that swears a state trooper let him out of a ticket because his GPS's max speed was under the limit and the trip time showed it had been running for several hours.

    Don't know if it's true, but I keep mine on during trips now just in case I need it.
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  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    Speeding tickets will be a thing of the past when automobiles become automatic. You punch in your destination and off you go. Guided by markers in the road and speed goverened by road conditions and traffic all under control of a Central Highway and Traffic (CHaT).

    It will be sold to the public by zero accidents (yeah, right), better economy of fuel, no traffic jams, and time spent with family or reading, all while riding in the comfort of your vehicle.

    There are already test being done with the buried markers to guide your vehicle.


    What you describe is a railroad, my man! Best, Joe
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a funny story about GPSs. Years ago when I was still diving I had a LORAN, GPS and Knotmeter installed on the boat. Well I kept the boat in Mission Bay, and there is a 5 mph limit until you get in the channel. So I'm doing my 5 mph (it is about 1/4 mile from Quivera basin to the entrance to the channel) and a SDPD water cop pulls up next to me. He has no instrumentation except a compass and proceeds to tell me that I was going to fast.

    I asked him what is his basis for telling me I'm going to fast, he tells me that 5 mph is about the speed of a fast walk.

    I tell him that LORAN, GPS, and my Knotmeter all tell me that I'm doing 5 mph and that it's been roughly 2,000 years since someone walked on water. So unless you're gonna write me a ticket you would be guaranteed to lose, because my witnesses are superior court judge, a captain of the CHP, and an assistant district attorney, and me, a deputy sheriff, we have somewhere to go.

    He shook his head and without saying another word turned his boat around and left.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My GPS has a function I can set to warn me if I go faster than a speed I preset on it. It also can warn me if I am going faster than the speed limit but that only works if the area I am in has the local speed limit set in the GPS's data base.
    I suspect that this feature will become much more useful hopefully fairly soon as the data base for this information becomes more widespread.
    Rather that causing us to get more tickets it may well help us avoid them.
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