Scan license plates so you can text flirty messages to cute drivers with GM’s new app

Digital Trends ^ | 21JUN2014 | Jason Hahn

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wouldn’t one have to voluntarily enter one’s plate into some service provider’s database to make it possible?

[RegulatorCountry]

Nope, no way this would ever be abused or come to grief. Not possible. Next up, drive by scanning of home networks to see if you want to “know” the people who live there.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Of course. And where would the database provider obtain that info?

[LostInBayport]

Du noted that drivers who don’t register for the app would still be contactable.

Road rage, burglary and auto theft develop new facets. Lawsuits to abound.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Um...REALLY? GM doesn’t have ENOUGH problems these days?

[cripplecreek]

People complain about the growing surveillance state and then can’t fork over money fast enough to buy it.

[Semper911]

What could go wrong?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

DMV?

[GeronL]

stalkers dream come true

Why would something like that be allowed?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Someone would read his own plate into an app and tie it to his email address.

Of course, that would also make a kind of tracking of strangers’ plates possible because there is no assurance that the plate actually is yours.

[GeronL]

does the DMV sell that kind of info?

[HiTech RedNeck]

NOPE. If that’s what they plan to do then to hell with this.

[Vision]

There are plenty of smartphone apps that make it easier to flirt and set up dates with strangers, but GM has an ace up its sleeve that may trump all of them.

How about building a great car at a great price? When GM enters the sexuality business it's all over.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Currently it doesn’t.

There is some limited accessibility to companies that manage automated road tolling systems, to make it possible for one state’s tolling company to bill another state’s driver. I worked for a while for a company that had pretty much all the Atlantic states’ toll road business.

[Bogey78O]

The biggest risk is impersonation. Create a mess of profiles for attractive women in the area. Horned up men text them and arrange dates where they’re jumped and robbed by the crook. Or create an impersonation profile and create a grudge.

For instance, see a jerk in a blue Malibu, snag his license plate and then create a profile and harass a guy who looks like the kind who would be violent who drives the same commute just to watch the animosity rise between them.

[TexasGator]

Biggedt risk us texting while driving

[Lmo56]

Can you say ... STALKING ???

App users can abuse this to no end ...

[upchuck]

Reason #316 why I don’t need or use a cellphone. Don’t need or use texting either. Wanna talk to me? Call me on my landline phone. Answering machine will help you if I’m not home.

[Dallas59]

"She wouldn't have been my sixth victim...had she not had the Flirt App..."