It's official! Your car isn't safe when you're not in it.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, more than 1.2 million automobiles were reported stolen in the United States in 2003. That means one car is stolen every 25 seconds in this country. In the time it took you to read this blog so far, your car has probably been cracked into and chopped up for spare parts. With this figure increasing with every passing year, Rocky Mountain Tracking, a world leader in vehicle tracking systems, has unveiled a new device, using the Global Positioning System, that will catch criminals mid-getaway and help police recover your vehicle before the chop shop has had a chance to pop your hubcaps. Two cars have now been stolen in America since you started reading this.

Rocky Mountain's new $490 LandAirSea 7100 Real-Time Vehicle Tracking and Recovery System instantly tracks the location of any stolen vehicle using the latest GPS and Web-based technology. For a 25-cent fee, you'll be able to track your stolen vehicle from your own home, giving you full knowledge as to exactly where your vehicle is heading and even an option to disable your vehicle's engine, foiling the bad guys' plans and getting you your vehicle back. All this is available to the car's owner simply by going online, where the system will even give you a notification if the vehicle's airbag is deployed.

While most real-time GPS-based systems use a cellular technology that requires a monthly fee, the 7100 requires no such fee and has no minimum usage requirements. That's mostly thanks to the system's live tracking on the Internet, which makes for a far more affordable, reliable, and user-friendly service that can provide live tracking, location, speed, direction, date, and time. And what makes the Rocky Mountain Tracking so sure that this system will help police find your vehicle? Probably because the only other people to have used similar technology in tracking stolen vehicles are the police. All told, you should be able to track down your vehicle intact and still have some time to laugh at the sorry shmuck getting cuffed. How's that for technology?

Related Links: Rocky Mountain Tracking Inc.