Ed Carroll

City, London

Systems Manager

I would agree that the increasing availability and great advances in GPS have now delivered us a navigation platform that supersedes any of the before (and some!) It is a great technology; it’s efficient, saves resources, is always up to date and as Peter said; as long as you put in the correct information you will get to where you want to go! It seems like a great deal and certainly a technology that some people thought a decade ago was never going to be in reach of your average consumer! However aside from all the positives there is the negative that possibly won’t be noticed until it’s too late… to quote: “…GPS navigation systems. Soon these will all be standard too!” on the first take it still sounds like a great idea although do we take in to context the full implications of this? Being a driver, 10 years down the line if this were to happen you will have a globally tracked ID that at a very whim can be used to locate your vehicle to potentially anywhere in the world… this worries me; and it doesn’t take a great imagination to realise how this information could be used / abused…

As with all great advances in technology they will be embraced by the masses; I just hope there are controls in place to stop this great technology being misused.