Thread: Big Brother - a tracking device in every vehicle!?

Be interesting to know how they plan to retrieve the data for the roughly 80% of the country that has no mobile phone coverage?

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Be interesting to know how they plan to retrieve the data for the roughly 80% of the country that has no mobile phone coverage?

John

satellite's

Some of the units have the ability to store a certain number of movements and then when they come back into mobile coverage the information is then uploaded. The vehicles themselves are tracked using satelites, so when in the city centre some of them don't track so well.

From a business perspective they are a great idea as the company can keep track of where their vehicles are, it can improve customer service. Imagine wanting to know when your service technician is going to arrive, they can give an exact location of where the van is and what direction he is travelling (hopefully yours). Great for confirming time sheets, their workers driving habits, do they always speed, are they using the company vehicles out of hours when they do not have permission etc

But to track individuals in private cars is way over the top. But to an extent they can probably already do this with E-toll, as you now have to have an e-tag in Brisbane else you get fined, if you don't pay within a certain number of days. I would think the cost to supply and install these units let alone the tracking and monitoring would blow out any cost benefit. What if the unit was tampered with and stopped tracking would they impose a fine? Who would have to pay to fix them.

Just some thoughts

i believe the police have already tracked private mobiles,probably involves some sort of court order though.

As my Father-in Law who used to drive trucks said, It only takes one can of Coke accidentally knocked over on the dash to stuff em up!

Originally Posted by ezyrama

As my Father-in Law who used to drive trucks said, It only takes one can of Coke accidentally knocked over on the dash to stuff em up!

That it is possible if it is not installed together with the VDO Tachographs system or in a place where the driver is not aware.

The company I work for developed a system form Norwich Insurance in the the UK that allowed people to volunteer for a usage based Insurance premium. I believe the insurance product has been withdrawn

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Originally Posted by GuyG

Some of the units have the ability to store a certain number of movements and then when they come back into mobile coverage the information is then uploaded. The vehicles themselves are tracked using satelites, so when in the city centre some of them don't track so well.
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I can think of a few vehicles that would fill the memory between visits into coverage.

And as mentioned, installed into a private vehicle, the would be quite likely to be "accidentally" disabled, for example by getting accidentally wrapped in aluminium foil, or even getting a heat gun on them for a few minutes. If the vehicle was usually out of coverage, it coould be a long time before the problem was noticed.

John