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Satellites Used to Stop Car Thieves in Pakistan

Posted by michael on from the remote-control dept.

zymurgy_cat writes "Yahoo has an interesting story about a company in Pakistan that uses satellites and mobile phone networks to monitor and disable stolen cars. Looks like they can also monitor people's driving habits and whether or not they're using the air conditioner. The article comments about how much easier it is for them to do things like disabling cars remotely than in Western countries. (Remind me to never rent a car in Pakistan.)"

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  1. Onstar anyone? by ajohnj1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Onstar has had these capabilities in most GM equipped cars for quite some time now. They use the tracking abilities for catching car thieves, they use Onstar to unlock car doors if you lock your keys in the car, they also have the ability to monitor or change any of the guages in the car as well. Whether they use all of the technology or not is another question, but the technology is in the US already.

  2. Yay for nobody reading the article. by DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try reading the article next time, people. There is no rights violation going on here. This is something people CHOOSE to have installed in their car and actually PAY for the service. It's not like it's automatically placed in every car so that they can watch you wherever you go.

    -- Dr. Eldarion --