If your car is stolen....
02-07-2006, 02:51 AM
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If your car is stolen....
and you have the Nav, will police (or anyone else) be able to track you? Would you consider this an alternative to LoJack, which costs about 600$. Thanks for your help!
02-07-2006, 03:47 AM
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i don't think its possible to track a car with navigation....otherwise such things as lojack would be obsolete in the years to come....navigation dosn't really send out a signal that can be picked up...instead it picks ups a signal (via satellite) to track where the car is
02-07-2006, 04:09 AM
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Blitz, with all due respect I beg to differ. Since Navi is equipped with GPS, it can be used to track or detect a location of a car. My cousin was once in an accident in a BMW equipped with Onstar. While not the same as Navi, the car is still equipped with a GPS device which notified Onstar (and consequently police) of his car's exact location to which they promptly responded.
See this excerpt from Autotrader.com:
See this excerpt from Autotrader.com:
To broaden their appeal, offboard services such as OnStar and Lincoln Mercury's RESCU are broadening the depth of information and service they provide. Both include a MayDay system that automatically calls for help if the airbags deploy; other luxury automakers, such as BMW, offer similar MayDay systems that also immediately report to a company service center anytime the car alarm is triggered. Since all cars with navigation or MayDay systems are equipped with GPS receivers, service-center operators can also track a vehicle that is stolen.
02-07-2006, 04:39 AM
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Originally Posted by JPTL-S
Blitz, with all due respect I beg to differ. Since Navi is equipped with GPS, it can be used to track or detect a location of a car. My cousin was once in an accident in a BMW equipped with Onstar. While not the same as Navi, the car is still equipped with a GPS device which notified Onstar (and consequently police) of his car's exact location to which they promptly responded.
See this excerpt from Autotrader.com:
See this excerpt from Autotrader.com:
just so you know, onstar has its own equipment that notifies the onstar service reps of accidents...theft..and so on...what im basically saying is....yes...navigation has the capabilities...but with ours....if an Acura TL with navigation was stolen....it won't be possible to locate the car using the navigation
02-07-2006, 06:49 AM
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The GPS (navigation) in our TL can only receive information from the Global Position Satelittes. There is no transmitting capabilities.
OnStar/LoJack can receive and transmit. That's why you pay the big money for those systems ...
OnStar/LoJack can receive and transmit. That's why you pay the big money for those systems ...
02-07-2006, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by NFLblitze1
just so you know, onstar has its own equipment that notifies the onstar service reps of accidents...theft..and so on...what im basically saying is....yes...navigation has the capabilities...but with ours....if an Acura TL with navigation was stolen....it won't be possible to locate the car using the navigation
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