Bet you never thought you’d see that as a topic, eh? Well, now you have. More to the point, there is a whole lot of fun you can have with vehicle tracking systems. Take this guy for instance: he put together quite possibly the world’s largest delivery order, intended for a case containing a GPS tracking unit. Then with a little help from DHL, the case takes his planned route. What happens is this:

As you can see, he has managed to create a self portrait (well, sort of) using nothing but the path his case took, tracked by the GPS unit inside.

This got me thinking, what else could you do with vehicle tracking systems like this? Sure, this is probably the world’s biggest drawing (seeing as the canvas is the world itself – can’t get much bigger than that in the world itself) but what about more detailed, slightly less weird looking pictures (come on, that arm is just messed up)?

Anyway, one idea I had was for some kind of TV show where the prize is your freedom. I think I saw something like this on TV years ago (Tarrant on TV to blame here). It was a Russian TV show, where the object was to steal a car and then try to escape from the police over the next 60 minutes or so (details are a little fuzzy here). In the end, I’m pretty sure that if you didn’t manage to escape and actually ended up getting caught, that was it – you actually went to jail for car theft! Escape and you won the car you just stole – the perfect balance of trying to escape whilst not destroying the prize in the process. Of course this could all be tosh and my memory is deceiving me like a politician over expenses claims.

Now, think about it. Add in some vehicle tracking, maybe a police helicopter or two and give the person a car to steal and head start – whoever lasts the longest without being captured wins the game. Sure as hell beats any other ideas for reality TV shows, and you get to put away some budding criminals in the process. Yeah, one gets away as free as a bird, but compared to the current system of nearly all criminals getting away with it, what’s to lose?

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