Now we just have to wait for the stories of people reporting their car stolen to the police, who claim they can do nothing because the air tag shows exactly where it is.
[LoJack](https://lojack.com/) was introduced in 1986, and the market long ago decided that giving the police the ability to track and find you whenever they wanted wasn’t such a hot idea
I mean as a pilot/poc program, this isn’t a terrible idea as it doesn’t really cost that much for 500 AirTags. Of course, I’m a bit confused on the actual practicality of how it would work. Do I call the cops and then give them live coordinate updates, or can I somehow give them permission to access the AirTag location data. Otherwise this becomes a bad 90s spy movie where civilians need to play phone tag with the cops – “they’re at the corner of 1st and broad, no they just went straight on forstep, actually they’re u-turning on 15th, do you see them?, do you see them? Where are you? I don’t know if that’s a one way street or not….what do you mean that’s a dead end?”
daisyeld says
Now we just have to wait for the stories of people reporting their car stolen to the police, who claim they can do nothing because the air tag shows exactly where it is.
ReallyGene says
[LoJack](https://lojack.com/) was introduced in 1986, and the market long ago decided that giving the police the ability to track and find you whenever they wanted wasn’t such a hot idea
TacoMeat563 says
I mean as a pilot/poc program, this isn’t a terrible idea as it doesn’t really cost that much for 500 AirTags. Of course, I’m a bit confused on the actual practicality of how it would work. Do I call the cops and then give them live coordinate updates, or can I somehow give them permission to access the AirTag location data. Otherwise this becomes a bad 90s spy movie where civilians need to play phone tag with the cops – “they’re at the corner of 1st and broad, no they just went straight on forstep, actually they’re u-turning on 15th, do you see them?, do you see them? Where are you? I don’t know if that’s a one way street or not….what do you mean that’s a dead end?”
elimtevir says
SO there are 500 private cars in NYC?