GPS Tracking For Cars

1 – Do you believe the saying “what comes around goes around”

2 – In relevance to the above question, why the hell did I get my Satellite Navigation system stolen from my car while at my new job (had to drive a lot) on my second day, being today (as you can see it’s weekend work too). They watched me put it in a little hiding place in my car as when I came back to it, after i left it for 10 minutes, the drivers window had been smashed and it had been taken. The above saying, I’ve smoked marijuana once, to try it, I don’t drink, I drive safely, I’d like to think I treat my family well, I don’t hang around bad people or negative people, I want to join the British armed forces or Army, Police force or Fire Brigade… so why?! damned people… I wish them to get caught, or at least suffer … a lot….

and 3 – is there a way i can track a sat nav at all? of anyones knowledge? considering it is… well… a GPS system lol

Ty, [kinda] rant over

Best Answer: Ok, took a while to read but I read it all =] lol
First of all to answer the first bit, I really dont know if I do or dont !
The second part, if they watched you put it in a hiding place and waited for you to leave, why did you leave for the 10 mins? u should have waited till they left or else parked your car where ther was a lot of people so no one would break into it.
Bad things happen to everyone. My dad never really did anything bad in his life but now he has a heart disease, yet there are people he knows who have caused so much upset to their family they drove them away.
Last part, I dont know…

• 3. no, I don’t think you can track a Satellite nav. 2. Before you leave put it in someplace where they don’t see it like in the stow and go in a van but lock it. 1. No, I don’t believe in that saying.
• no

Hello,

I’m 20 years old, I live at home with my parents and I’m going to college. Just recently **** hit the fan, and I just wanted to ask everyone if what they’re doing is right?

So a little bit of background information, my parents let me use their car to drive everywhere. Just recently they placed a GPS receiver on it secretly. One morning they came into my room, searched EVERYTHING and woke me up and said “WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING YOU HAVE”. I was clueless at this point and said I didn’t know. They told me I did and until I can find it then I can’t drive their car.

So I’m telling them that I don’t know what it is that they put in my car, cause they never told me. So I head outisde and low and behold, the GPS receiver was on the ground. I give it to my dad and first tell him: why are you guys spying on my without telling me? They tell me that its their car and they can do whatever w/o telling me.

So he comes back to me and tells me…..physical damage has been done to thte device, you’re paying $300 for it or you can’t drive the car. I’m freaking out right now, I have class and an interview for a job and they’re taking my only means of transportation and forcing me to rely on friends.

What should I do?

I think its wrong cause they invade my privacy so much. They check my phone, snoop around in my room, trying to break in a safe I recently got. It’s crazy, now they track where I drive???

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Best Answer: unfortunately they’re right
they can put the GPS on the car
but they have no right to go through your things
also DO NOT pay for the GPS tell them if they want the money….they have to take you to court b/c you didn’t even have any knowledge of it they ambushed you

• they are treating you like a 15 year old!!
  move out! get away!
• It may breach your privacy, but I hate to say it…it is the price you pay for living under you parents’ roof and driving their car. If you don’t want to play by their rules, you can always move out and get your own car. I know it’s not fun to hear, believe me…I grew up with an overbearing dad. But it is what it is…

need GPS in there cars. I was listening to the radio and I heard a commercial for GPS, it was in a NASCAR car, and all it kept saying was left turn in 5 seconds… left turn in 5 seconds…left turn in 5 seconds, don’t the drivers know their way around the track, seems simple enough if your watching the road. Don’t they notice that they are all left hand turns during practice? When a driver hits the wall is it because his GPS malfunctioned and he turned right by mistake?

Best Answer: I guess the advertisement worked. It got you attention, didn’t it! You watched the commercial, so they succeeded. Seriously funny…..

Go Jr.>>>>

• Possibly, but if that true, I hope the GPS company doesn’t decide to do a cross-promotion commercial with the people from HEAD-ON. Imagine a car is led into the wall by his GPS, and then the little lady won’t stop saying HEAD-ON, HEAD-ON,HEAD-ON.
• Haha.. well they got your attention…They dont have GPS in their cars really..they have spotters…. that was just a commercial for a driver..haha..

  =]

  hope I helped with this…

• Fourcyrn out loud you just made me cry of laughter. Does anyone have a tissue. Spot is Robby Gordon’s sponsor. Its a GPS for individuals. Maybe you should get one.
• that’s so they can eat a White Castle hamburger while they drive. People are always wondering how they pee, but the real question is what they do when they get the “crave”. They use their GPS
• if not for the start/finish line… you can get lost BIG TIME at bristol
• You must have heard the one in JR s car He had it installed so he could find hispit
• that was the commercial with kasey kahne in it for gps. it was just being stupid they really don’t.
• I believe that Kasey Kahne is that much of a dumbass he needs a GPS in his car
• LOL This is a great question. Good one! LOL

  GO SMOKE!!! GO RYAN!!!

• GEEZE, DON’T YOU KNOW REAL LIFE FROM A COMERCIAL!!!
• You sure you didn’t mean to post this in the mental health section?
• jokeing?
• LMAO………..thanks for the laugh
• yeah…no
• oh wow… your kidding right?

Did anyone read about how that retard followed his gps’ directions directly onto train tracks where a train was coming towards him? HOW the **** did he manage to pull that one off??? seriously? isnt there a point when you go.. “hmm, wait, my car cant drive on train tracks, that HAS to be wrong…”

yur thoughts? I’m looking for funny here

Best Answer: Whoever said they would sell their dog, needs to re-think that, I bet your dog has a better since of direction than that $500 GPS system you have.

Well there are some pretty retarded people out there. Lack of common sense is what causes that.

What ever happened to the days of knowing how to read a map. I don’t own a GPS, I use a map to plan my routes. A lot cheaper than a GPS for one, and I never get lost, never go down the wrong road.

Just simply use a map morons.

I just love the commercials on tv about those stupid GPS systems. Saying turn left now, turn right now, etc. Plus that damn GPS don’t do you any good offroad. Course this type of thing happens more often than people know. There’s something called common sense that should come into play but apparently knowone has any of that anymore, they just think that $1,000 piece of electronic equipment is 100% correct all the time.

I once punched into Yahoo maps my home address and my cousin’s home address and the yahoo map if I would have followed it would have sent me 130 miles in the wrong direction to catch the freeway to go the opposite direction, so don’t follow those online maping sites either. I just did that to see how accurate they were for a project, and after that one I couldn’t stop laughing for a week over that. I was like holy cow wonder who has followed those instructions. Its very funny sometimes to just plot locations in that you know how to get there because you’ve been there so many times just to see how far out of the way the electronics send you.

I have a Garmin Hand-Held GPS that works great, but once you get in a vehicle with it forget it, the metal of the vehicle throws that GPS off, and it looses its connection with the satellites. I used my Garmin all the time when I was in Iraq, but I have to use for one at home, I just use a map.

• If the nut doesn’t know better than to turn onto the train track he shouldn’t be allowed out without a nanny. I learned to read at 5 years of age, my father taught how to identify North, South, East and West and the Marines taught me map reading and navigation. I don’t get lost but have helped out quite a few souls who blindly followed their GPS’s until they were totally lost. If you don’t know what you’re doing or where you are electronics will not save your dumb @ss.
• duh mine always says make this right but its in the woods no road yet u have to be a bit crazy to follow that
• No, never!

  My gps gets these little fits sometimes… it gets confused and just keeps “recalculating” even though I am travelling straight on the same road.
  Once it told me to make a U-turn on the HIGHWAY, through a barrier. Obviously I ignored it.
  Also, it took me way off between factories and storage buildings because it thought there was a Mcdonalds there. Yeah right.
  If I trusted my gps with my life I would probably be a very dead person right now.

• Well I certainly wouldn’t drive down the tracks but my GPS has screwed me over before. I drive a large truck with a trailer and I have gotten stuck on dead end narrow mountain roads due to my GPS. I followed my GPS right up to someones driveway once. The GPS told me to keep going straight through the house to the road I was looking for on the backside of the property. It took me awhile to get that big truck out of that situation. After that I quit using it once I got in to the mountains.
• Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is nothing funny about being stupid with a vehicle.

  Using a GPS while driving makes the vehicle a ‘crew-served’ machine…That means one to drive, one to navigate…Our marine friend will vouch for that…The full attention of the driver must be on controlling the vehicle…Anything that takes away that attention or focus is a hazard to the operation of the vehicle…The first rule of driving is to know where the destination is and the second is to know what route to take BEFORE starting the trip.

• My Garmin has been off by a few feet but nothing as bad as that. If I was in a blizzard and only had enough gas to get it right the first time before freezing to death. Then yes I would.
• You have to do a reality check….don’t get me wrong….I would sell my dog before I would give up my Garmin 660.

  But in the real world you need to make the final decision yourself…

• Yes, mine always does its job, but you also need to use what is called “common since”.

GPS tracking and a very high cost per mile may work.

Best Answer: Is that you Ebeeneezer Broon.? …have you tried going to work on a Bus or Train. waiting in the pissing rain for a bus full of people coughing & spluttering all over you..or else in Glasgow having some Junkie mugging you….or going to the Asda ..for your messages .where do you put them in the buses’ boot ? . believe me you will be praying for a car… talking about the Environment have you seen a Buses’ Exhaust recently ….the fumes are shocking.. Stop taxing to death the Motorist..

• Great idea. Rural people, farmers, loggers, miners, etc. already are at an economic disadvantage. Since they don’t have access to public transport, let’s hit them even harder.
• In the first place it is none of your business. The person ruining the business is much better at making that decision. And there is the dragon raising it head of to soak the successful business man with more tax. Don’t u know it makes no difference to them to raise the tax ,he in tern will raise the price and it never touches hem. The poor guy buying the merchandise will pay for it.
• There’s no need to be indirect or high tech. A simple solution is easy.

  Tax gasoline. Use the tax money to make public transportation free. People who want to drive can still do it, and they’ll pay the bus fare for other people to ride buses. As a fringe benefit car drivers will have less traffic to deal with. Everybody wins.

• Think we should ration people’s amount of petrol/gas that they can receive each week. This would make people think about why they are driving and if the trip is absolutely necessary. It would encourage people to share transport, use public transport when they can and save their use of the car for really important reasons. Make people consider moving closer to where they work and to live in proximity to public transport. It would make a huge difference and be fair as everyone would have the same amount or they could sell their allocation if they wanted to. This would be an extra source of income for the people who led more self sufficient lives.
• How about starting a war in the middle east so that the price of oil will rise to the point that gas is just too expensive? Oh, wait! Bush DID that, and all the Liberals got upset!
• There are plenty of solutions to encouraging alternative energy and conservation that don’t involve coercion and more government spying. There’s already way too much of that. NO THANKS
• Why not use the gvmt stormtroopers to just march up to a car and force the driver out at gunpoint? This way you and your little nazi groups don’t have to waste the time collecting taxes!
• Why would you tax someone for choosing to use a bus over their car when we’re already being taxed for public transportation anyway? This doesn’t make sense to me. We’re already paying to provide the city buses whether 10 people ride or 1000 people ride. Why on earth would you want to make an additional tax for those who own a car? I personally think it cuts down on the traffic. And I HATE traffic.