My 2017 car doesn't have any navigation, internet connection or any "onstar" type service. It has a basic radio that does not have satellite radio capability, and I don't use the bluetooth to connect to the audio head. I don't have a mobile phone, period. I know the car's computer records telemetry, but that has to be accessed through physical connection. How are these folks theoretically tracking my car?
surveillance cameras, traffic cameras, and satellites.
What civilian organization owns or has access to real-time tracking satellites? Google Ring cameras might be networked and data collected by AI, but they are not that common yet for any kind of real-time coverage. Traffic cams and license plate scanners might be helpful to catch you if you are wanted, but not track everyone in real time all the time.
I would probably use not just one input, but multiple inputs to gather data, and then use machine learning to predict the path of the target to track them. You can use Markov Chains algorithm to predict the path they are most likely to take depending on the data given by the data sources. Google Map can be used to find all the possible roads to apply this algorithm.
Toll transponders. I've read tire companies are even embedding sensors in tires.
You need equipment to read those RFID tags. Not all RFID tags can work at a significant distance so the transponders/readers would need to be high powered and positioned relatively close to the tag to read it. The fears associated with RFID and NFC tag technology have not been warranted because those who spread the fear often know nothing about the technology and its limitations. There are much better ways of tracking people/vehicles than using RFID/NFC. You cell phone is ideal for this since the infrastructure is already in place for this and the phone has the necessary sensors and transmitting power to make it work. Put your fear where it is warranted instead of technologies that don't work the way you think they do.
Even a completely disconnected car can be tracked using the "Smart Camera" systems on most highways and main roads. While they may not get you in real time, they can develop a picture of your ravels travels.
EDIT: Fixed the spelling error but left it there because 's comment was hysterical.
But can they develop a picture of your bolero, though?
Wrong!!!
YOU ARE INDEED TRACKED by the hidden RFID transponders hidden in all Tires edge!
All major US highways have RFID loggers for forensic "back in time" path traversal of a known tire.
Each tire for 15 years has a mandatory radio RFID , nondestructable via microwave, overspike radio chip, pulsed like a gas station fast-pass.
They work at speeds over 90 mph on any highway with the detection wire scored across the road.
read about the non removable non-battery rfid used and mandated via many federal laws.
READ Shocking 2006 leak of program! :
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209450&cid=17079870
Wow!
more :
Michelin Embeds RFID Tags in Tires :
https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?269
RFID is transforming the tire industry :
5 years ago :
Manufacturers who insert a RFID tag inside tires
Michelin and its brand BF Goodrich:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?269
Goodyear tires:
http://www.rfid-ready.com/201202156319/goodyear-integrates-rfid-tags-in-truck-tires.html
Bridgestone tires:
http://www.tirereview.com/rfid-today-tomorrow-yesterday/
Komho tires manufactured in Korea:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?10880/2
Cooper tires:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8231060.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7443301.html
Continental tires:
www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?8338
Pirelli tires:
http://www.cnet.com/news/pirelli-microchipped-cyber-tyre-improves-safety-performance/#!
http://www.safetyresearch.net/sites/default/files/recalls_rfid.pdf
https://www.moderntiredealer.com/article/311541/rfid-and-the-tire-industry
EVERYONE is tracked , even if you swap license plates, if you travel on a US Federal Highway
ALL TIRES TRACKED, even at all military gates and airport entrances
There has to be a way to destroy, overload the antenna. With a powerful enough electromagnetic wave at the right frequency, it will vaporize the antenna.
the coils stop taking more charge when recharged fully prior to random delay firing and transmission. When not taking more charge they are merely open loop coils.
I think a very powerful hand held dangerous microwave emitter might be able to fry them but I recall that people trying to kill these types of things had a hard time using a 1400 watt standard microwave oven magnetron in hand held fashion.
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