“STAR TREK” TECH: The next step for...

“STAR TREK” TECH: The next step for 911 is to locate callers on car phones. Engineers hope to soon be able to pinpoint, within a mile, the location of calls on Orange County highways. . . . As for calls from homes, where addresses now flash automatically, dispatchers would also love to to be able to pinpoint the location in the house a baby, for instance, is trapped in a fire. “We have the technology to show a diagram of a house on the screen when a call comes in” says Pacific Bell’s Eric Sorensen, but the cost to computerize and update the data makes it impractical for now.