An article by Tracie Cone of the Associated Press was published in our
local newspaper and it questioned if Personal Locator Beacons gives us
a sense of security that allows us to push onwards, where otherwise we
might not.

From her article:

"Now you can go into the back country and take a risk you might not
normally have taken," says Matt Scharper, who coordinates a rescue
every day in a state with wilderness so rugged even crashed planes can
take decades to find. "With the Yuppie 911, you send a message to a
satellite and the government pulls your butt out of something you
shouldn't have been in in the first place."

I never considered a SPOT or other PLB to by a "Yuppie 911."

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA