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I have no problem with this. Cars are incredibly dangerous, cause over a million deaths a year. I have no problem with every single car being constantly tracked.

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How would this help physical auto safety?

Citation needed. For the US this number is less than 50,000, where are other 950,000 car deaths occurring?

WHO: http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/

The US is about 4.3% of the world population. Typically, other populous countries have less cars per capita, but also higher accident and fatality rates.

Looking at the data, most of those deaths come from India and China - countries that have fundamental infrastructure problems. Traffic mortality is a symptom of something much bigger.

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