When is it cool to work for a GPS-based company?  I’ll tell you when, when you read news like what I just found today.  How cool is it that a man used information downloaded from his dashboard GPS unit to disprove a police officer’s claim that he was speeding?  Very cool my friends, very cool.

According to the Australian Herald Sun, “Brett Pownceby was issued a $215 ticket alleging he was going 119 kilometers per hour in a 110 km/h zone…”  By presenting the courts with data showing “his speed, distance covered, and exact location in snapshots taken every few seconds” all totaling up to irrefutable proof that he was going a full 21 km/h slower than the police claims….Ticket dropped, apologies issued.
Score one for the Average Joe.  Police were quick to note that this would not be an often repeated act and was just a mistake and misunderstanding.  Bottom line, it shows where GPS is going, what it can do and just how influential it will be in the days, weeks, months and years to come.  Just think, with the Widgets WHERE is rocking right now, how amazing things will be in 6 months, a year, or even 5.