find out what someone drives with just the address

[cronos]

Maybe they just changed it. It now requires full name and date of birth. I tried without them but it said they are required when I clicked submit.

I put in a bogus name, actual address, random date of birth, and it pulled up both my cars D:

 

[SKORPI0]

Someone do Jay Leno, .

No data.

But here's the webpage of his garage.. http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/

 

[Gillbot]

It pulled all of my cars correctly...

pulled mine too D:

 

[Markbnj]

Ha yep, they got mine right, aside from the Honda Odyssey that my wife just traded in a couple of days ago. I wonder how long it will take her new Forester to show up?

 

[TwiceOver]

Says I need name and DOB required.

 

[KidNiki1]

I put in a bogus name, actual address, random date of birth, and it pulled up both my cars D:

same for me.

 

[Markbnj]

I just tested it again with a specifically bogus name and bdate and it worked as before. Got all three of our vehicles with the exception of the van previously mentioned.

 

[TwiceOver]

Pulls nothing for me or my parents addresses.

EDIT: I think this is because neither of us have probably shopped around for insurance quotes, well, ever.

 

[Markbnj]

Couple of thoughts. First, name and dob wouldn't really add any security at all. That's available for nearly anyone with a little digging, and trivially for anyone famous. The only methods to further auth this that come to mind are to require the social (again, not impossible to get), or require an account to be created. The first would probably put people off and spike the abandonment rate on the form. The second would just torpedo the take-up rate on the form because a lot of casual shoppers would bail.

So I suspect they have thought this through pretty carefully. Is this information really private, after all? You're out driving the vehicles around in public.

 

[madoka]

Bill Gates has pretty normal cars for the world's richest man.

That's probably what he wants you to think.

Mega-rich guys have multiple homes. He's got homes and cars that he doesn't want us to know about. Rest assured those are not the cars he really drives around in. Remember, he is a Porsche fan and he's got several 911s and a 959. As you can see, none are on that list.

 

[John Connor]

Pfft, doesn't show the Learjet 85 I own...

 

[Via]

No data.

But here's the webpage of his garage.. http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/

He doesn't have an XJ220.

Fail.

 

[John Connor]

Doesn't work! I tried myself, my mom and a girl in high school!

 

[deerslayer]

Didn't get my motorcycle.

Didn't get my bike either. Got the truck and the car though.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's kinda scary they would publish such info so freely. Does not work in Canada though, would only take a 5 digit zip code... actually, here's something I always wondered, zip codes are 5 digits, and only digits, no letters (or can there be letters too?). That leaves 99,999 possibilities. How is this possible? There is way more than 100k houses in the states.

 

[OverVolt]

That's kinda scary they would publish such info so freely. Does not work in Canada though, would only take a 5 digit zip code... actually, here's something I always wondered, zip codes are 5 digits, and only digits, no letters (or can there be letters too?). That leaves 99,999 possibilities. How is this possible? There is way more than 100k houses in the states.

Haha I'm quoting this so you can't delete it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha I'm quoting this so you can't delete it.

No but seriously, how does it work? There can't be only 100k houses in the entire united states. Or can two houses in a different state have the same code? That does not make sense either though, especially considering systems such as this one require only that and it can pin point a specific dwelling.

In Canada it's 6 "digits" and 3 of those are letters. Canada has way less houses than the US. (I say houses, but I mean any building that would have a code).

 

[MrChad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code

 

[sixone]

No but seriously, how does it work? There can't be only 100k houses in the entire united states. Or can two houses in a different state have the same code? That does not make sense either though, especially considering systems such as this one require only that and it can pin point a specific dwelling.

In Canada it's 6 "digits" and 3 of those are letters. Canada has way less houses than the US. (I say houses, but I mean any building that would have a code).

The codes each cover a small area, starting in the northeast, and move west and south - anything starting with a 1 is east coast, 9 is west coast.

Each zip code has hundreds, even thousands of addresses, depending on how concentrated the population is. My metro area has about 30 zip codes, for a population of just under a half-million people.

We have four-number suffixes, but they're mostly only used by companies that handle large quantities of pre-sorted mail - it gets them a lower postage rate.

 

[MrChad]

I tried a few addresses on my street but no vehicles pulled up. This in Virginia. I wonder if it only works in certain states?

 

[Red Squirrel]

The codes each cover a small area, starting in the northeast, and move west and south - anything starting with a 1 is east coast, 9 is west coast.

Each zip code has hundreds, even thousands of addresses, depending on how concentrated the population is. My metro area has about 30 zip codes, for a population of just under a half-million people.

We have four-number suffixes, but they're mostly only used by companies that handle large quantities of pre-sorted mail - it gets them a lower postage rate.

Oh, interesting, so they're not unique. I always figured they were unique, and then it struct me, there's just not enough. That makes more sense then.

 

[sixone]

Oh, interesting, so they're not unique. I always figured they were unique, and then it struct me, there's just not enough. That makes more sense then.

So the six-digit codes in Canada are each unique to one address?

 

[MrChad]

So the six-digit codes in Canada are each unique to one address?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada

I guess the last portion of the postal code could represent a unique address.

The last three characters denote a local delivery unit (LDU). An LDU denotes a specific single address or range of addresses, which can correspond to an entire small town, a significant part of a medium-sized town, a single side of a city block in larger cities, a single large building or a portion of a very large one, a single (large) institution such as a university or a hospital, or a business that receives large volumes of mail on a regular basis.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So the six-digit codes in Canada are each unique to one address?

Yeah more or less. If I google my postal code I get my house.

Edit: actually it seems they cover a few houses each. I always thought it was unique though.

 

[Puppies04]

I am checking you guys and I think it might be broken. All it is coming back with is M3s.