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It'd be the first thing I bypassed in a car.
Why?
Surely you can think of some way that government installed GPS devices in someone's cars might be worth choosing not to play along with...
The "be ungovernable" sentiment is pretty common for folks on this platform, right up until the cops could maybe stop people from doing something they dont like and then suddenly surveillance and policing are totally viable solutions that definitely couldn't possibly backfire or have unintended side effects 😅
I'd rather stick to traffic calming and better pedestrian infrastructure, personally
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Do you have a cell phone powered on and with you while you drive?
Yes and I don't want them to be able to track that either. I'm not sure having an existing surveillance issue is good reason to add more surveillance 😅
Again, we have lots of options to solve this problem structurally with traffic calming and pedestrian friendly road and infrastructure design
I am sure, so do you. So you'll certainly have no issue posting the GPS coordinates of your home and workplace here in this thread. After all, you're already OK with strangers tracking you.
I'm waiting...
Point is, gov can see it anyway. After like 25mph, its pretty evident you're in a vehicle.
Yes, and my point is, if you say more government tracking doesn't matter since you're already tracked by Google, then it doesn't matter if strangers also track you. Since government officials and Google employees are also strangers to you.
Correct. Those aren't the only two entities that can track you.
Then where are your coordinates?
37.34904° N, 121.90544° W
Show me your warrant now
So you actually don't think giving up your location doesn't matter.
Glad we agree on this.
Gov needs a warrant to obtain gps coordinates. Show me your warrant.
They don't need a warrant, you're allowed to just tell people your coordinates. A warrant would just permit Pommes to commit illegal acts until you give it up.
GPS doesn't need an active internet connection. Maps can be offline.
...what? I'm saying you don't understand how warrants work, not whatever you're rambling about.
The entire point of this thread is about putting GPS in vehicles, FYI. Dude was asking me to post my coordinates, like it was some kind of gotcha.
If someone really wanted my GPS coordinates, they would need them stored online somewhere, and a warrant would be needed to access them.
Yes, if they were stored online somewhere, then whatever entity is keeping track of it would have access to them at all times, but if a government wanted that information, they would need a warrant.
Luckily, GPS doesn't need an active internet connection, so if you have offline maps, you can not only navigate roads, but the GPS device COULD be used as a speed limiter effectively, with no privacy loss whatsoever.
The guy replying to you isn't the government, and he still doesn't need a warrant for you to just tell him your current coordinates. Everything you've said is completely irrelevant.
Why do you think he is asking for my GPS coordinates?
I have a faraday wallet. Every so often I put my phone in the wallet so that it can't be detected by RF emissions.
Im sure it works great when you use it.
Because a wide swath of speed limits are not credible, and are deliberately set unrealistically low in contravention of traffic studies, civil engineers' best practices and experience, and common sense simply as a revenue grab via fines and to have a convenient legal justification to pull over and harass undesirable people, i.e. minorities.
You ever drive through an all-white beach down in Nowhere, Florida or someplace and wonder why all of the sudden the speed limit on their major six lane thoroughfare is suddenly 20 MPH? You'd better believe the people who live there aren't the targets of getting pulled over constantly.
Edit to add: This is before getting into the possibility of emergencies, fleeing disasters, getting someone to the hospital, etc.
Yeah, America would rather enforce with tickets than with good engineering and reasonable rules.
My city, medium-sized and in the US, used to post 85th percentile speeds and quartiles whenever they did speed studies. Sometimes they overrode it, rarely did they explain why, but at least they showed that they had gone out and observed that actual section of road. We have a different mayor and probably a different council at this point and I haven't seen a speed study on the city website in some time, though they seem to be paving and doing a better job of making car friendly and bike friendly routes interact better. I am a firm believer that road design is 2/3 of how people drive and only the tiniest portion is fear of enforcement. We should keep in mind though that speed doesn't have to be the enemy. Germany has speed too, but their 30kph neighborhood roads don't look like wide open airport runways. That's why I'm baffled by the freeway speed cams some states are doing. The freeway is statistically the safest place for an American to drive (except maybe on their gaming console). Suburbia and rural roads are much less safe because of higher speeds, intersections, 2 way traffic, and unprotected turns across oncoming lanes.
To your point about little towns, I'm still irritated with Wyoming State Patrol in Rawlins, WY for giving my a ticket for passing a Semi at 79 in a 70 on a clear and sunny day, safely, and carefully. It's just the ticket lottery. Set a low enough limit and you can pull over Mother-fucking-Theresa for breaking the law.
Surely you can think of some way that government installed GPS devices in someone's cars might be worth choosing not to play along with...
The "be ungovernable" sentiment is pretty common for folks on this platform, right up until the cops could maybe stop people from doing something they dont like and then suddenly surveillance and policing are very viable solutions that definitely couldn't possibly backfire or have unintended side effects 😅. Installing a government mandated GPS device in a car doesnt just have implications for how fast you can go. Surveillance technology always carries the risk of enabling the government to surveil, intervene in, and persocute people for things that ought to be protected activity. You never know how this kind of far reaching increase of governmental power may affect people's rights.
I'd rather stick to traffic calming road design and better pedestrian infrastructure, personally
My town has been increasingly prioritizing road redesign for safety - my favorite example is a major road lined with strip malls was restriped down to one lane and is now noticeably slower, calmer and safer yet we get through it noticeably faster. The magic of doing it right
To get to a common destination through there used to take me 12-16 minutes. Now I drive slower and it’s consistently 9 minutes or less!
Love the hear that, thats rad as fuck!
You've apparently never had to make it to a hospital before someone dies.
I didn't catch the comment before deleted, but regardless of different ways of looking at this subject, I'm sending love and hugs
Please take good care of yourself my friend 🫂
I happened to catch the comment before you deleted it, and I'm sorry that happened to anyone, and I'm sorry it was someone you obviously care about. Not gonna argue the point under discussion because I don't want to cause any distress beyond what's inevitable.
I live 115 miles from the nearest hospital that has critical care abilities. I live 30 miles from the nearest hospital of any kind. What's faster, do you think? Pegging the speedometer on my car trying to get to a hospital, and meeting the ambulance on the way? Or waiting?