Posted on 10/09/2007 8:08:42 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
Except for when Big Brother doesn’t want you driving somewhere.
An incentive to kill the driver. I feel safer already.
Didn’t they have this for sometime?
Next we will see interactive speed signs.If you’re speeding ,the sign will transmit a disable signal to your car.A cop will be along to write you a ticket and re-activate your car so that you can continue on your way.
Instead of waiting for you to pull over they’ll just press the button and hold you there until they are ready to let you go. After all there is no “right” to use the roadways.
Onstar is a good system. It may be big brother watching, but if it is your own big brother..okay.
I suggested this to our own company for rental equipment with electronic controls. At the end of the rental period it gives you a signal to pay next month or I will stop.
One competitor that we had refused to deliver the software to a bankrupt customer..so his unit wouldn’t run. No pay..no play.
Unless they want to search your car and take body fluid samples, in which case your departure could be delayed.
Remeber when credit corporations were installing kill devices on vehicles and would activate it when you missed a payment? GMAC and OnStar hhhhmmmmmmmm.
Like no one saw this coming.......
Wait until you’re late on your property tax bill for your new SUV...and Da Man shuts it off until you pay up sucka!!!!!
Holy wrong number, Batman, I dialed 555-1213 but that car isn't slowing. (Meanwhile on the cross town expressway in a vehicle with the tag 555-1214, Joe Schmo was heard to say "what the heck is going on with my car!")
Great Britain Satellites on speeders (Motorcycles' engine to be cut off via satellite - cars next)
That’s all it’s going to lead to.
When insurance companies pay for these features, then I’ll know that they make economic sense.
i’ll believe it when i see it.
where i live cars are stolen routinely.
my pickup about seven weeks ago was stolen on a friday night.
i got it back on sunday afternoon, undamaged, fortunately.
an illegal called me to tell me where it was located; the police couldn’t find it because it was behind an apartment building.
the police said local teens often need to use a pickup to move something, and abandon it when they’re thru.
Why do you need a cop, general motors will gladly write you a ticket for a 10% cut, just like the camera goons, they'll just put a slot or key pad on your dash, when the proper amount of credits are received you can start speeding again.
EXACTly
OnStar is the reason I won’t even consider GM vehicles anymore. Too bad, because of all American car makers I used to like GM the best. Others had bad luck, for example, with the Chevy Citation, but mine worked just fine the whole time I had it.
There are too many encroachments on privacy as it is.
I don’t need another.
You will never regret getting a car with fins.
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