The same technology is sold as an extra feature in the USA.
Wayne Industries is working on sonar capability that could be built into cellphones that would be even better than these Chinese taxis.
I am not familiar with the statistics, but I would be willing to bet the farm that crime in China is way way below crime in the U.S. But then again, we have to protect the rights of criminals.
It’s “for the children” no doubt.
Chairman Mao is smiling in his grave: the Mao Games will validate his monstrous cruelty.
A good set of wire cutters would be the cure for this.
It was such a good idea to allow the Chicoms to host the Olympics, wasn’t it?
Wait'll the City Councillors in Cambridge or Brookline, Ma., Seattle, or San Francisco hear about it. They'll be rushing to do the same.
Don’t anyone act surprised. Totalitarian countries have always devoted enourmous resources to spying on visiting foreigners.
Several generations worth of Soviet-era journalists, businesspeople, tourists and visiting scholars have reams of often-hilarious tales of being tripping over their “tails”, hearing clicks on the phone lines and saying goodnight to the desklamp in their hotel rooms.
I would imagine that if Chinese diplomats hop into a cab in Washington DC that the cab is bugged.
I am predicting serious reprocussions out of this Olympics.
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If you are not a contestant, I can not imagine why anyone would have time to waste being in China for the Olympics........
Beijing : Come for the clean air, stay for the totalitarianism.
And we do business with these types of people.
The same technology is sold as an extra feature in the USA.
Has anyone heard the Leftists in this country complaining about the lack of privacy our Olympic athletes and the US media has in Red China? Where are the Congressional hearings? Who from the US is on the Olympic committee that chooses the country? We need to publicly thrash those high paid PCers.