Say what.? How could my vehicle stop me from going where I want, when I want to go?? What am I missing here...?
“Say what.? How could my vehicle stop me from going where I want, when I want to go?? What am I missing here...?”
They now have a built in capability that law enforcement can use to shut cars down if they have the proper equipment. They started this with 2016 models, some with “onstar” even before that.
In fact I am in auto repair and I have had customers whose cars would die when they passed this one particular cell tower. Some improper frequency coming from the tower was triggering their shut down mode.
If your car has GPS, it’s a simple software matter to geofence you and restrict your movement if the government desires it. Think Climate Change restrictions that they are about to introduce. Odd/Even driving days, limited miles per year etc. It’s coming soon.
“Say what.? How could my vehicle stop me from going where I want, when I want to go??”
That electronic button you push to start it now instead of a mechanical switch engaged with a key. The fancy display screen is in fact a computer that controls all the operating systems of your car. Your steering wheel is only connected to a computer. The computer interprets the input from the wheel and determines which way to go. Same with the gas pedal: no direct mechanical linkage. All electronic. That computer has an antenna, and is receiving/transmitting data whenever it’s on. That data to/from whom, I don’t know. Several cases of cars “mysteriously” having a mind of their own. Some even explode (see Brian Kemp’s potential son-in-law).