Collision Warning — GPS Tracking Can’t Help
A great many people come here looking for information on defeating GPS tracking or some other aspect of real or imaginary privacy concerns.
Other people, and buy do you see them every day, keep track of every hangnail and runny nose their kids have and threaten to sue to government or someone over every scraped knee.
We have become a nation developed world polarized, not along political party lines but by the zealous guarding of privacy on one side and the incessant demands that “the government” or at least someone do something about each and every hazard we face in life.
Just to add complexity and turmoil to the situation, the most rabid advocates of one issue are often the same people strongly opposed to the other side of the coin. This article should really turn someone’s crank:
Future Nissan cars will keep an eye on more than just the road
If Nissan has its way with a technology that it is about to trial in Japan, it could lead to the ultimate in privacy invasion – a giant computer network that tracks all pedestrians and all cars all the time.
The Intelligent Transport System is part of a long-running project at Nissan that aims to vastly improve the safety of its vehicles and the number of collisions they are involved in.
GPS phones
Its latest element calls for car computers to be linked to a central server via a wireless network and pedestrians to do the same through GPS-enabled mobile phones.
As you may have guessed, the system keeps an eye on pedestrians as they wander around – presumably, like headless chickens – and beams warnings to drivers when it thinks car and pedestrian might cross paths… more on Nissan GPS spying.…
The part that really gets me regarding this item on an innovative use for GPS tracking? Considering that it is a Nissan proposal one would think that at least some of the design staff have driven once or twice in Tokyo. I have, I lived there three years.
“Kon bon wa, Warning …7,011 pedestrians approaching from the left, 6256 pedestrians approaching from the right and one suicide attempt now on his way down from the 65th floor, domo arigato, ku da si.”
There is likely no end to the uses for GPS tracking technology, the challenge on this one will be to get a GPS Tracking ROI.