Feds plan to track every car

World Net Daily ^ | October 7, 2004

[_Jim]

At any rate, I'm afraid this may create audible 'artifacts' that would prove distracting and therefore a 'non-ideal technique' in a passenger vehicle ...

[stylin19a]

In this state(IL)even though insurance is mandatory, it's an after the fact enforcement. Now what ?

This idea shouldn't fly at the Federal level. How can the feds step on states rights ? Remember the national speed limit of 55 mph ? It wasn't a national speed limit. The feds blackmailed the states into 55mph by threatening to withhold road funds. A couple of states told them to take a hike.

I'm guessing the feds could require it on new cars, much like seat belts or catalytic converters, but they'd probably have to grandfather in old cars.

[Old Professer]

Oh, well - it's back to the mother-in-law, then.

[drhogan]

oh, man, they put one of these things in my brain, but i RIPPED IT OUT!!!

[TXBSAFH]

Oh well This gives me something to disconnect now doesn't it.

[Bikers4Bush]

This is exactly why I will always own at least one very old automobile.

[pageonetoo]

Paranoid ravings. What exactly is there they can put in your car that would know you've got a crack in your windshield and it's getting bigger?!

What is there that they can put on a car, and tell which tire is going flat, and warn you?

What is there that they can put on a car, and tell you when you need a tune-up?

What is there that they can put on a car, and tell you what kind of fuel mileage you are currently getting?

Paranoid ravings...duh!

[TMSuchman]

Don't they have access through northstar & lojack systems? Will I EVER allow such a system in MY vehicles? [HE!! NO!!]

[RadioAstronomer]

Tin foil alert!

[par4]

I loved the '56 and '57 Chevy's with the hidden gas caps. The '56 had the lens that opened and the '57 had the door in the left fin. I remember as a kid working in a gas ststion and trying to find the doors on all the different cars. I still wonder if the designers hid them to drive attendants crazy.

I do remember one which unscrewed, but not which car. Probably the '58 pontiac, weren't that many of them around anyway. Vettes were the worst, with the cap in the middle of the trunk and all that freshly polished fiberglass to drip onto....

[Hank Rearden]

Ok, Republicans, if this is true - are you going to "limit government" or not? Hmmmmmmmm?

[ThinkDifferent]

I don't really care personally what they track, so long as I live in safety.

Wow.

[BobS]

"The only way for people to evade the national transportation tracking system they're creating will be to travel on foot."

They think so, do they?

I work in the microwave area and I already can jam those devices or locate where they are in your car and make a fortune disabling them, because I know missile tech.

[Hank Rearden]

I don't really care personally what they track, so long as I live in safety. There is only one thing I expect from the government and that is their protection. I can take it from there.

I'm almost speechless.

All I can say is, if you get your wish, Big Stupid Government will not permit you to "take it from there". BSG will take, and run, everything.

[JLO]

Ok, I think your memory is better. What was the one that had the gas tank opening behind the back license plate that had to be flipped down?

Thanks in advance. (Was it an Olds?)

[InvisibleChurch]

this sounds like an article made up by FreeRepublic poster, dead ... some things are possible (like taking the trash out) and some are impossible (like tracking every vehicle in the US) ... don't fall for it, even if there are people who are in favor of it

[JLO]

Good grief, mellow out.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I saw a nice Tin Lizzie for about 9K the other day. Maybe I'll get that instead.

[par4]

Darn near every full sized car in the 60's had a flip down license plate that exposed the gas neck, I kind of remember that my '65 Chevy Impala SS (in Evening Orchid, no less) had that system. The license plate was held in the vertical position by a couple of springs. When they went bad (or were delibrately broken), the plate dropped down parallel to the ground and became unreadable.

This is only conjecture on my part, but since that long filler neck was right under the bumper, it was pretty exposed in a rear end crash and may have been very subject to snapping off, resulting in the government forcing a redesign and subsequent relocation of the filler to the rear quarter panel on almost all cars.

Of course, that's only my opinion, your actual mileage may vary, warranty void when exposed to the light of day etc.....

[FixitGuy]

Yeah, and there was a nut case frim Michigan who used to tell people that every fourth reflector in the middle line of the road could be activated by satellite to shut down car engines when the gov. wanted to take over the country and put the citizens in jail!

Amazing how many people believed him.

He used to say also that all you had to do to disable a helicopter was to throw a garbage bag in the air and it would catch a rotor, throw the blades off balance and it would crash, leaving you free to run away!