Posted on 05/26/2011 6:49:41 PM PDT by markomalley
The National Traffic Highway Safety Association expects to have a decision by the end of the year on whether all new vehicles will be required to have 'event data recorders' installed.
Known as 'black-boxes' the recorders collect vehicle data in the moments leading up to during, and after a crash. Unlike aircraft 'black-boxes' the vehicle data recorders do not make audio recordings.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs6albany.com ...
On down the short article it says:
…it has been used by law enforcement officials and insurance companies for the purposes of civil and criminal court cases.
Wonder when they will hook up these black boxes to GPS and cellular towers.
I think the government should require that the black boxes be dipped in gold and encrusted in diamonds.
After all, burden and cost is no object when it comes to regulation.
I’m sure it won’t take long - once they have that, won’t need speed traps or red light cameras any longer, a little software and the tickets can automatically flow based on the data from these things.
Gee, there was once a time when our elected Representatives in congress would have to actually debate and pass a law to force costly mandates on an entire industry and take away large parts of our freedom. I guess we've just decided to dispense with that archaic formality and allow some unelected groups of government employees to create laws out of thin air.
gotta have that “black box.....so ya can do this...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/oregon-governor-looking-at-gps-based-mileage-tax-to-fund-roads/
Obama’s abuse of the executive office continues.
Imagine if they did . .
Wife: Slow down.
Husband: Why?
Wife: You're going too fast.
Husband: I'm going the speed limit. Do you want to drive?
Wife: No, freeways make me nervous.
Husband: Well, nagging makes me nervous.
Wife: You're just like your mother. I'm going to start calling you Helen.
Husband: You leave my mother out of this.
Wife: Slow down, Helen.
Husband: I should have listened to Mom when she told me you were good for nothing.
Wife: Well why didn't you just marry your mother, then? Slow down, Helen.
Husband: You think this is fast? (Presses the accelerator)
Wife: Dammit, Helen, you're going to get us killed! You missed the turn off.
Husband: I can still make it.
[Screeching. Screaming. Crashing. Steel twisting. Silence.]
Fry those effers in a few minutes. Fail.
BINGO!
When I was 16 in the early 1980’s I told a friend that one day our (different but future) grandchildren would ask us ‘granddad, were you really free to drive where ever you wanted to, even off road, and nobody would know?”
It may well by my children asking me that.
I just read that 65% of 2005 cars have these, and that they’ve been around since the 1990’s.
The recent Fed action just makes the data formats standard.
This is already being done to us.
Wonder how this ties in to the Federal Mileage Tax, eh?
will run the price of vehicles even higher
no thanks
I'm guessing they will probably be hard wired into the computers every vehicle has these days. I'm sure some enterprising hacker will quickly figure out a way to disable the sensors or something. As for the penalty, I'm sure it will be some totally over the top federal felony to scare people into submission like they did with the catalytic converters back in the 1980's.
What you will see is something I once worked up and got my national insurance industry drooling over, but dropped the thing. Too intrusive, even for me. That was in 1989.
- Box records everything, controls everyting.
- Drivers licence is on a card.
- Designated DL is ignition key.
- Box tells central where car is and whose licence is in.
- Automated function to put demerits on your license.
- Central can designate where the license can and cannot go.
- Can lock down car if it’s in a no-go zone.
- And so on.
They liked this sh*t very much, and were a bit disappointed it was dropped. Anyway, now the tards seem to be catching up, one feature at a time. They’ll get there, eventually.
Low-techs will rule.
Airbags, too, the issue of disconnecting them was a serious debate.
Within a year or less after the first ones go online, there will be a way to disable them.
I'll have my popcorn ready for the first court case where the Gubmint tries to sue or prosecute such an individual who disables The Box on his new GM or Chrysler Turd Coupé
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