Car Tracking On Its Way
The Age
Thursday December 4, 1997
FROM January motoring clubs around Australia will know where your car is 24 hours a day seven days a week.
The RACV and other motoring organisations will introduce technology dubbed the Intelligent Tracking System, which uses a satellite global positioning system and a mobile phone to enable your car to be tracked.
The system is designed to improve the level of service offered by the country's motoring clubs. For example, all cars fitted with ITS will have an emergency panic button and a roadside assistance button hidden from view.
Breakdown and drivers can press the roadside assistance button, which then automatically dials the phone so you can talk to an RACV operator.
However, no longer will you have to guess where you have broken down as the GPS system will have already told "home base" exactly where your car is located.
Another neat trick of the system is remote opening of cars with central locking. Being locked out of your car will therefore be a thing of the past.
The RACV expects the system will go on sale early next year priced at about $1250 with a $295 annual subcription fee.
© 1997 The Age
