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Old 02-04-2014, 06:41 PM
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Default 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.

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