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I find it highly alarming that a private company would have the ability to know my location at all times.

Maybe it's time to get rid of my cellphone...

With many modern cars, especially luxury ones, they come with a way to put a sim in it, so that they can provide you with ways to locate your own car (to remember where you parked), provide a wifi hotspot, integrate google maps, among other things.

It constantly surprises me how many companies want to solve the "problem" of remembering where you parked. Is this really such a big problem for people? It's a solution in search of a problem.

Also GPS doesn't work so great when you're parked in a multistorey carpark, which is probably the only situation where I might forget where the car is parked.

I do realise that it may have other advantages, the wifi hotspot and google maps being good ones.

To add to this list my favorite perceived uses are managing car features remotely such as locking doors (relevant here), closing the trunk, rolling up the windows, etc. Perhaps putting up the top on an automatic convertible would be nifty as well in inclement weather.

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