Replying to a message of TIM RICHARDSON to ROSS SAUER:

 TR> Also, modern-day motor vehicles are hooked to electronic
 TR> satelite circuitry that allows the owner who locked their
 TR> keys in the car, to call a telephone number, give the code
 TR> ID for their vehicle, and the satelite `pops' the
 TR> doorlocks! Whats to say there isn't also circuitry in the
 TR> computerized components of the vehicles to allow them to be
 TR> located and\or tracked?

I've noticed GM advertising exactly that 'feature' in their radio commercials
for OnStar.  Also tidbits like '... impact from the left and from the right ...',
no doubt they can also tell how fast the car was going and whether or not the
brakes were applied.  I'm not likely to purchase a vehicle made after about 2000.

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