O.K. Bmuss, I'll try to help deflect some of the heat.
These things are not as all knowing and all seeing as this thread would suggest. We have them in our newer cars. Not long ago, one of our guys was following someone when he lost control in a corner and struck a light pole. The accident investigators had to physically plug into the unit to get the information from the crash. It is not transmitted anywhere, and it is not maintained for an extended period of time. If you don't crash, the data is written over almost immediately. So the conversation goes like this:
Accident Investigators: "How fast were you going?"
My Guy: "About 45".
Accident Investigators: "No you weren't. Were you wearing you seatbelt?"
My Guy: "Yes".
Accident Investigators: "No you weren't. Was your partner wearing his seatbelt?.
My Guy: "Yes".
Accident Investigators: "No he wasn't".
Without the GPS interface, Law Enforcement is not able to obtain this information without physically hooking up to the data port in your vehicle. Do you really think the Government, local, State or Federal, is going to install and then track the GPS Units for every 2008 and up vehicle in the United States? Not likely. Even if they passed the initial cost on to the consumer, who would pay the freight for the service and then the man hours necessary to administer this enormous undertaking?
Now, maybe if you were being investigated for some reason, which called for surveillance, agents could track you using this system, but they can do that now. They just have to slap a puck on the underside of your ride first.
The only issue I see is that if you crash, you can't lie about it. Whatever.
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