Posted on 04/10/2008 12:12:23 PM PDT by BGHater
will tell my story later
I wonder if hummers have this? If so it’s a problem and this article just made it public.
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Time to get a copper paint job for the car.
Make sure you don’t use ‘dirty’ copper... :-)
I see a boom market for car Faraday cages...
“I see a boom market for car Faraday cages...”
hard to drive with them wrapped around your tires :-)
of course you could use a freq. scanner to get the freq. and then build your own jammer of sorts. . . I guess.
but then, my goodness, you couldn’t see your tire pressure one your dash. gasp!
Will your car start if it's not getting TPMS signals?
Will it be illegal for car service people to remove the sensors?
Now I understand why Bloomberg and others were talking about special tolls for downtown traffic. This is easier than cameras and probably more reliable for ID.
” Will your car start if it’s not getting TPMS signals?
Will it be illegal for car service people to remove the sensors?”
if you could get a couple friends with the same size and brand tires, you could trade em around. imagine the confusion if one car registered 4 serial numbers per checkpoint :-)
in fact, go to a junk yard, pull the sensors out of tires there, throw 10 or 12 in your glove box and giggle a little every time you see a reader. :-)
Question for anyone who knows. Do the systems that tell you which tire is low automatically adjust when you rotate the tires? I had the dealer do it for me at my last oil change, but would prefer to do it myself. Service reps wouldn’t say, for obvious reasons.
some do tell you which tire is low some need a scan tool.
they do make tools to reset the sensors also. and at this point I don’t think there is a law saying you can’t toss em.
I hope not cause I’ve tossed a few.
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I'm sure some intrepid engineer/hacker would be able to spoof it.
Remove the tire, pull the batteries.. problem solved.
Much ado about nothing.
If the battery lasts 7 years, the transmit power has got to be minscule.
Sounds like a bit too much paranoia, compared to other technologies.
Or ... take some lead foil and put it around the nasty little transmitting sensor.
Mrs. GR and I have FasTrak transponders in our vehicles to pay bridge tolls in the Bay Area.
Caltrans also uses our transponders to determine traffic flow on major freeways all over California. When you pull up traffic conditions on Google Maps, that’s where they get the data. Google Maps has saved at least 100 hours of my time in helping me avoid traffic jams. I consider that to be worth about $5,000 dollars.
We don’t have TPMS, but wouldn’t care if we did. We’ve got better things to worry about than who is keeping track of our cars.
I had a GM rental last year that was reporting 0 air pressure in all the tires and that the engine was on fire.
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