Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

[ELVIS]

There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
All inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
So I might as well begin to put some action in my life....

British Steel!

god bless.

[CJ-95GT]

There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
All inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
So I might as well begin to put some action in my life....

[stevo]

The MPH is based on the rate of change, it could be off by 10 miles and still see that you are moving at 65mph. A broken scale may not give you your correct weight, but you can still use it to calculate how much you've gained or lost since the last time you were on it.

The data the towers receive would have to be off the exact same amount at all times for it to be able to calculate the exact speed, the problem is that it changes as you move, the inaccuracy changes constantly.

That looks to be 12-14 year old accuracy.

The oldest article I read yesterday was dated 2008

Stevo

[lowthreeohz]

And triangulation determines where someone is, they would need an overlay with topography to know someone's elevation without gps

[lowthreeohz]

Because pilots never carry their phones?

I don't think they use any triangulation for altitude/elevation, and like said above, it's not illegal for your phone to go 100+. Not enough connection to you to ticket or prosecute you...yet.

Cell signals are almost non existent above a few hundred feet, most antennae are tilted down from the tower for coverage reasons

[BP]

I need to toss my phone in one of my rc planes, and see if the NSA starts wondering what I was doing at 100+mph at 500-1,000ft altitude for 7min.!!!

You should post up on facebook that you are designing a personal rocket system first, throw up some basic designs. Wait a couple of weeks and then do this with your phone and claim you made your first test and it was a blast! I bet the FAA comes to visit.

[Chas_svo]

I need to toss my phone in one of my rc planes, and see if the NSA starts wondering what I was doing at 100+mph at 500-1,000ft altitude for 7min.!!!

Because pilots never carry their phones?

I don't think they use any triangulation for altitude/elevation, and like said above, it's not illegal for your phone to go 100+. Not enough connection to you to ticket or prosecute you...yet.

[4bangen]

I need to toss my phone in one of my rc planes, and see if the NSA starts wondering what I was doing at 100+mph at 500-1,000ft altitude for 7min.!!!

[Pokulski-Blatz]

I agree completely. I guess I shouldn't have said "don't worry too much", and more like "Oh, so you spent a bunch of time, money and effort figuring-out that my cell phone ran a red light. Badass. What law did I break?"

They already spend a bunch of time, money, and effort for that same outcome with red light cameras.

Right now the gov has too much data to sort. As soon as they figure out how to break it down to make it useable, that is the point we are fucked.

The right thing to do would be to raise a stink about how ''integrated'' our lives have become before they find a way to turn what is just data soup into actionable intel.

[MattB]

I am more concerned that they know where I was.

Last I checked I was a law abiding American. No one has any business knowing where I am, what speed I am traveling, who I am talking to, or what I am talking about.

I agree completely. I guess I shouldn't have said "don't worry too much", and more like "Oh, so you spent a bunch of time, money and effort figuring-out that my cell phone ran a red light. Badass. What law did I break?"

[Pokulski-Blatz]

I wouldn't worry about it too much. So if somehow information gets leaked that your cell phone was traveling down the tollway at 200mph on a Saturday night.....what law did you break exactly??

I am more concerned that they know where I was.

Last I checked I was a law abiding American. No one has any business knowing where I am, what speed I am traveling, who I am talking to, or what I am talking about.

[MattB]

That is odd, from what I read the lowest average accuracy is 40 meters, the normal average is around 100 meters and that an inaccuracy of 1200+ meters is regular seen in rural areas. I cannot see an error margin of .1 mph with that much inaccuracy.

Stevo

I wouldn't worry about it too much. So if somehow information gets leaked that your cell phone was traveling down the tollway at 200mph on a Saturday night.....what law did you break exactly??

[slow99]

I put off college science until the summer before graduation so I had to take the non-calculus physics course. It's just not the same without integrals and derivatives

Derivatives make my world go round.

[Nash B.]

I put off college science until the summer before graduation so I had to take the non-calculus physics course. It's just not the same without integrals and derivatives

[slow99]

technically, you're both correct. v = ds/dt, a = dv/dt = d2s/dt2

Look at me - I'm the fancy physics guy.