Decius wrote:

Delcan NET, a Canadian company, developed the system which triangulates the location of each driver by monitoring the signal sent from the cell phone as it is handed off from one cell tower to the next. Each phone is uniquely identified and the information is compared with a highway map to record on what road each motorist is traveling at any given time. The system also records the speed of each vehicle, opening up another potential ticketing technology.

A pilot program in Baltimore only tracks Cingular cell phones on 1,000 miles of road. AirSage Inc. has contracted with Sprint to spy on motorists in Norfolk, Virginia and Atlanta and Macon, Georgia.

Wow thats fucked up. AirSage says identifying information is stripped from the data in their pilot in Georgia.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. The day I can be ticketed or have my insurance adjusted based on tracking my vehicle is the day i stop wanting to drive a car. It's not worth it to me if I can't occasionally do the (admittedly sometimes unsafe) things I do. Driving precisely 35 MPH around town is for busses and if this tech goes into widespread use, they better use ALL of the revenue to build some bad ass public transportation infrastructure.

RE: Missouri To Track Through Cell Phones