Newsday

Sheriff deputies are using GPS darts to track down speeding cars, DWI drivers

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office is equipping some deputies with dart-launching devices that fire GPS trackers, a move aimed at reducing the need for high-speed pursuits. The launcher, mounted in ...
https//carbuzz

Modern GPS-Equipped Cars Track Your Every Move, And The Data Can't Be Erased

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...
Road & Track

The Best Car GPS Trackers, Tested

GPS trackers have come a long way over the years. The best ones now give you real-time location, movement alerts, and trip history from your phone. And when something feels off, you can pull up an ...
KTVU

GPS darts to track fleeing cars approved for SFPD

GPS darts to track fleeing cars approved for use by SFPD. Technology used by other Bay Area law enforcement departments. But the devices don't always work. SAN FRANCISCO - It's a high-tech alternative ...
New York Post

California lawmaker plots another attack on drivers with ‘Big Brother’ in cars

A California lawmaker wants to bring in drastic measures to stop drivers from speeding — by forcing them to install devices that track their location and control a vehicle’s acceleration. Democratic ...
CNN

GPS jamming is emerging as an increasingly prevalent — and troubling — weapon of war

Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia dealer sold them cars despite bad credit. GPS kill switch stranded them

Gwinnett-based U.S. Auto Sales affiliate disabled thousands of vehicles across Southeast, even if their owners were paying their loans, investigators found. Ingrid Jackson, who bought a car from U.S.
MIT Technology Review

Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...
WREG

GPS tracking leads police to four stolen cars in Orange Mound

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It only took seconds for thieves to steal a 2024 Nissan from a Midtown home, but thanks to GPS tracking, police found the car just hours later, along with several other stolen ...
PC World

Death by GPS: Study finds blindly following navigation can be fatal

Scientists from the USA and Bremen have investigated how and why people suffer “death by GPS”–and what this actually means. Ultimately, the study aims to make navigation systems safer and help prevent ...
CNN

My car doesn’t have GPS, so I tested the best car phone holders to modernize my ride

If you drive a car that’s more than a few years old, you need to know the importance of keeping one of the best car phone holders on board at all times. It’s your only access point to GPS navigation ...