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Valencia, CA | reply to mlundin
Re: 911? Isn't that what OnStar is for 
Seriously though, an over turner car / 911 dial should not generate 'thousands' of pings. Tracking someone would.
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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kudos:12 | said by en102:Isn't that what OnStar is for Seriously though, an over turner car / 911 dial should not generate 'thousands' of pings. Tracking someone would. Yes, but how many people dial 911 from their Sprint cell phone? I bet it's an astronomical number. They have 50 million customers or so after all.
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said by en102:Seriously though, an over turner car / 911 dial should not generate 'thousands' of pings. Why not?
You dial 9-1-1, the automated systems don't know whether you are stationary because you crashed, or stationary because the kidnappers van is stopped at a light, so your location needs to be updated as regularly as possible.
I don't know how frequently the location data is transmitted back, but let's say once every second?
The average police response time--from 9-1-1 call to officer arriving--in Minneapolis in 2008 was 8 mins & 33 secs... that's over 500 pings there... now, for fire/ambulance calls it might be higher, people also call 9-1-1 as a replacement for poison control, etc...
Now let's factor in places like L.A., NYC, etc where the response times are probably considerably higher.
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that an average 9-1-1 call might generate 1,000 hits to a location database. |
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 marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | It's less than every second. More like every 15 or 30 seconds max. And in that scenario, only a small handful of pings would be requested. Active tracking of police equipment/personnel is going to be the big ping generator. |
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dagg
join:2001-03-25
Galt, CA | reply to en102
said by en102:Isn't that what OnStar is for Seriously though, an over turner car / 911 dial should not generate 'thousands' of pings. Tracking someone would. you're right, but how many times do you call 911 from your cell phone in a given year?
in the last year, i have had to call 911 for different things twice. not a lot in a given year, but that counts for at least 2 of these pings but im only one customer.
the year before that i used 911 4 times in the year (that i remember).
and how many "pings" does that even count as anyway? we dont know... could be 1 could be 5...
that leaves me with the following thoughts. 8 million in the given situation is not that big a number
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you knowingly bought a phone with a gps chip in it... what exactly did you THINK was going to happen? |
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