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New Mon 15 May 17 12:23 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - henry k
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39919702
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New Mon 15 May 17 12:32 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - Hard Cheese
No, fortunately!
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New Mon 15 May 17 14:09 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - sooty123
I think it's been knocking around for years, not so much over here but in the USA. GM brought it in, i think, omnistar (?)
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New Mon 15 May 17 15:50 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - Shiny
EU manadate it on all new type approvals from 1-2 years ago.
I saw a video on youtube of a man in his road car wearing a helmet on a racing track, he hit the barrier and then you immediately heard the phone calling and a voice at the other end asking if he was injured and he said no, and they said we will send the ambulance anyway and he was shouting NO!
Terrible.
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New Mon 15 May 17 16:17 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - Bill Payer
>> ...he hit the barrier and then you immediately heard the
>> phone calling and a voice at the other end asking if he was injured

Similar situation recounted recently on a Mercedes forum I visit - only this time it was on the M40. He said they were talking to him before the car had come to a halt, which he found quite alarming!
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New Mon 15 May 17 16:23 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - zippy
My employer insists all such devices are disabled in new company cars as they don't want us tracked.
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New Mon 15 May 17 19:14 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - jc2
It's been available on vehicles sold in the EU(and other areas) for several years now-on Fords,it's called "SYNC"-it can be turned off.
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New Mon 15 May 17 19:57 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - CGNorwich
Not even if you're lying in a ditch somewhere?
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New Mon 15 May 17 21:11 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - zippy
Disabled at the dealership or by someone that comes out if the dealer doesn't do it.

There have been complaints that some live services tend to get disabled at the same time.
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New Tue 16 May 17 07:44 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - Falkirk Bairn
Colin Montgomery was driving his BMW 7 series maybe 10 years ago when he was hit by a biggish Transit in M80 roadwork upgrades. It phoned home before the victims / witnesses. Car was a few weeks old & a write-off.

A Glasgow murderer was caught with the aid of tracking - murderer had his car in for an insurance repair & had a hire car. Unbeknown to him it was fitted with tracking/phone home - it placed him @ the scene & at the time. - drug gang murderer & drug gang victim.
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New Tue 16 May 17 07:45 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - jc2
It can be OFF or operated manually or set to operate if the impact is enough to trigger inertia switch.You or a dealer can programme it.It is not a tracking device,other than a mobile phone call which of course can be tracked.
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New Tue 16 May 17 16:14 
 Car reports a crash ( unfortunately ? ) - Shiny
>> It can be OFF or operated manually or set to operate if the impact is
>> enough to trigger inertia switch.You or a dealer can programme it.It is not a tracking
>> device,other than a mobile phone call which of course can be tracked.
>>
That's just the user interface, the radio is on 24/7 - you don't even need an active SIM card in a GSM device for it to be tracked it will still continually poll cell transceivers.
I would not want this in my car, it is an unwanted intrusion and worse still, a security backdoor (see the backdoors in Apple iOS, Android and Windows in wikileaks) and the recent NSA exploit APIs embedded into all recent versions of Windows being exploited within the NHS and across the globe.
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