Mercedes-Benz ‘ignores’ court order to activate suspect’s GPS

Filed under: GPS, Transportation

For all the tracking equipment that Mercedes-Benz crams in its motorcars, it’s apparently mighty tough to get the company to tap into any of it if you’re not the owner. Reportedly, the automaker has “refused to comply with a court order to activate a car’s GPS” after authorities tried in vain to track down a hit-and-run suspect the easy way. Police were able to pinpoint the owner of a 2003 S430 as a “prime suspect” for striking and killing a 24-year old jaywalker in Arizona, and while chasing him down the old fashioned way would seem a good bit more entertaining, Glendale police were looking M-B’s way for a shortcut. Apparently, no comment has come from the firm, even as those involved with the case have continued to fume over the lack of assistance, and while we’d assume Mercedes-Benz is just looking out for the privacy of its customers, hasn’t GPS tracking (much less the court ordered variety) been deemed legal anyway?

[Via GPSTrackingSystems]

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