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Brazil's high tech plan to stop car thieves dead in their tracks
Brazil's high tech plan to stop car thieves dead in their tracks
Brazil has a really big problem with car theft. In fact, the criminals and drug dealers that steal most of the cars take them to areas so dangerous, that the police will simply cut deals with the gangs to get the stolen cars back. Now however, there are plans to use technology to stop the ...
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Brazilian Car Thieves get Outfoxed : Intelligent GPS to save the day
Fashionfunky.com — ... even be able to shut off the car using the same technology. Now thats something that the developed world never had. I am going to be keeping a close look on this one and see how things turn out. There does seem to be a lot of potential for mis-use especially if someone figures out how to fool the system into thinking its been asked to shut off the car. Also , thieves have been known to use some conveniently low tech solutions to solve hi-tech ones. Lets see how this one plays out. Source

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