A company called GPS Networkcar promises "complete solutions for monitoring the performance, location, and security of your car." Location-based wireless technology connects to your car's computer and beams data about your car's performance to your "personal vehicle website," and your service provider. This kind of stuff seems to be becoming a more common built-in feature on late-model vehicles, particularly luxury brands (for instance, some of the cool telematics stuff that Mercedes-Benz began offering in 2003). But if your car didn't ship off the lot with such features, GPS Networkcar's service "communicate[s] with your vehicle's onboard computer, interpret[s] the data and transmit[s] important information back to you and your service provider." Here's how it works. Update: The all-seeing Paul Boutin wrote about this recently in Slate, and check out this related article by Paul on automobile "black boxes." (via unwired, Thanks Frank!)
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