quote:Originally posted by EA #3528:
I work in the GPS industry. We sell high-end GPS tracking and messaging system to the oil and gas industry. I have heard from many clients that they were able to use our active GPS 'map trace' function (and supporting minute-by-minute reports) to have speeding tickets outright dismissed in court. I have ask for some more details in light of this thread. I will post the steps they took in their defence (while maintaining confidentiality, of course), but I would assume their logic to be similar to David's with the main exception being that they actually had real-time GPS evidence to present.
In other news, I was called by my insurance company (Aviva - brokered by Competition Insurance) and I was offered a 30% reduction in my 2009 premiums because I have just installed an active GPS system into my cat. Once I'm able to hit the road again, I will send links to the GPS data that I pull from our software. I am wondering if I'll be able to peak the GPS speed-o over the 300 km/h mark ... if only for a minute.
So what happens if there was an accident (lets hope not) and the Ins. Co. gets a hold of the GPS and sees that maybe the accident was caused by the fact that the car was doing say 140mph? Then they decide they don't what to pay for the claim? Some things BIG brother doesn't need to know. Just a thought.