There are quite a couple of high-end cars which couple the GPS to a GSM
device to automatically transmit the position in case of the airbags firing
off.

"nimbusgb" wrote in message
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On 27 Jul, 10:56, Andy wrote:
On Jul 26, 8:06 am, wrote:

For the lasts few years, all new cars have a gps device in them.
Between the cell phones and the cars, the government knows where
everybody is.

I thought I had a reasonable understanding of GPS but perhaps I was
wrong. Can you please explain how the presence of a GPS device in a
vehicle allows anyone, except a person in the vehicle, to know where
the vehicle is located.

thanks

Andy

It doesn't, except in the minds of some completely paranoid idiots.