LoJack's website indicates they activate something in a car that sends a silent signal, and police then send up a helicopter to locate the stolen vehicle. And now we have GPS, the global positioning system that uses satellites to triangulate coordinates so we can locate things. I assume that's how Onstar works, but I'm drifting before I even ask my question.
The question: How far back in time would I need to go before car locators, like LoJack, required police to carry something in their police cars that picks up a signal from the stolen car. The police would need to stop, plot the direction the signal comes from on a map, move to another location, plot the signal's direction again, and then do it again from a third location. Where the projected lines cross, there's your car, assuming it hasn't been in motion since the first reading.
What year am I in? Or was that ever the method? Anyone know?
The question: How far back in time would I need to go before car locators, like LoJack, required police to carry something in their police cars that picks up a signal from the stolen car. The police would need to stop, plot the direction the signal comes from on a map, move to another location, plot the signal's direction again, and then do it again from a third location. Where the projected lines cross, there's your car, assuming it hasn't been in motion since the first reading.
What year am I in? Or was that ever the method? Anyone know?
