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Old Jun 3, 2009 | 5:42 am
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alanR
 
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Originally Posted by flyinbob
What I want to know is how, in this age where my rental car company can pinpoint my rental car down to its exact parking slot with GPS, how do they not know the exact location of every plane in the sky?
Because your car isn't 2000 miles out in the Atlantic. AFAIK most "GPS locators" read the GPS information then send it over ordinary mobile phone links
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