Posted on 04/30/2010 9:20:33 AM PDT by Nachum
All new cars would have to be equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress.
The draft of a bill was released Thursday by one of the House committees investigating Toyota's massive recalls for unintended acceleration in its vehicles. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House commerce committee, and Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chair of the Senate commerce committee, have said they intend to collaborate on automobile safety legislation this year.
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Let’s first install black-box recorders on all our politicians. I think it would be a very good idea to be able to know here they’ve been, who they talked to, and what they said. Especially handy in case one needs to do an immediate recall.
Stroke of the pen, Law of the land. Pretty cool!
Touch my truck feds.......and die.
CARB has a plan is place (they just have not implemented it yet) where roadside pollution monitors will be able to identify each vehicle driving by and detect the emissions level.
The plan I read about a few years ago would allow for the State to warn the owners to fix the emissions problem and if not then the roadside monitors would up-link to a central office where a state employee could remotely, via the GPS link, disable the vehicle.
I do not remember the mention of fines but since Kalifornia is broke we all know there would be huge fines involved.
Just smiling and waiting for the day when a John Edwards-type politician gets busted with a mistress or a hooker because muckracking reporters download black box GPS data from his vehicle....
I guess, but it wouldn't be practical unless you retrofitted all the old vehicles. Much easier to add to the gasoline tax that's already at the pump.
Also, if the “Government” has instant access to your black box, then PDs all over the US can just start interrogating them wholesale to issue speeding citations.
They can already do that with EZ Pass, but they don't. People would go back to using cash in tollbooths if they did, and also, the laws would have to be changed to issue tickets like that.
The automakers would have something to say if new cars were another way to get tickets. So, probably wouldn't happen. But yeah, this is another chance for Big Brother to be watching, just like cell phone tracking, and cameras in public places.
Not good at all. More government control over your every move.”
EXACTLY !!
I agree it’s more about government control than safety. Even more important is why the Congress is dealing with all these diversions when they still haven’t produced a budget on time for the next fiscal year.
Brake usage is recorded.
Waxman is involved. It has little to do with safety and a lot to do with control. The little totalitarian will give me another reason never to buy a new car.”
Hemmings Motor News is looking better & better.
They will simply no longer accept cash. Every person will have to use EZ pass or some sort of similar system that can be tracked.
CARB has a plan is place (they just have not implemented it yet) where roadside pollution monitors will be able to identify each vehicle driving by and detect the emissions level.”
Large cities in Calif already do such monitoring.
I saw a Lada SUV looking thing here today in Sweden. I loved it. I’d love to have one. It was cool as hell. We owe the ruskies for leaking the climate data.
The 5.8 GHz radio could certainly be employed to track vehicle as they pass a roadside device with network connectivity. A unique IPv6 address matched to the vehicle VIN at the time of manufacture could track the vehicle without a GPS. Simply passing a network connected roadside device could provide a time-stamped "bread crumb" log of the vehicle's movements.
I once worked in a job that required me to review and design algorithms for OBDII (On Board Diagnostics II).
There was a serious proposal from CARB (the California Air Resources Board) that we design all of our engine control modules to allow them to be queried by radios / computers located along the roadways.
The idea was that any engine that was malfunctioning in a fashion that might cause emissions standards to be exceeded would “tell” on itself and the owner would receive a summons requiring them to have their vehicle serviced or be fined. They were dead serious about this.
CARB would make all internal combustion engines illegal if they had their way. They are far left environmental nutjobs.
I don’t want any of my vehicles equipped to “tell” on me.
See my post number 36.
See my post #36
I believe the company techs couldn't find a malfunction.
I showed my wife what happens when you hold the accelerator down and then hit the brakes. Try it sometime but make sure your passenger is ready. The techs said that there was no enough wear on the brakes to indicate that he had really used them to slow down.
Steps to take if you have a 'stuck' throttle.
1. Hit the brakes
2. Put it in neutral
3. Pull over and turn it off.
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