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A high-speed, high-risk police chase over a nothing violation like this is an obscenity. I will never understand why people are willing to put up with it — why police aren’t fired, prosecuted, and jailed.

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    1 year ago

    The car is NOT tracked on a map. That’s not how GPS works.

    GPSes work by calculating their position from three satellites. They don’t share that position unless they’re using Google or Apple maps, and to get that data even with a warrant, you need to know their Google/Apple ID. Which you don’t have in a situation like this.

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        1 year ago

        Bold of you to assume the vehicle in question was a state of the art car with this stuff coming as standard.

        Not everyone is as rich as you.

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          1 year ago

          My car from 2008 had the feature as well. It’s nothing new.

          Some cars had low jack which isn’t near as good.

          Hell my car from 2000 had the feature as well.

          It’s more prevalent on new cars but it’s old tech. It gives you a nice discount on your insurance