On down the short article it says:
…it has been used by law enforcement officials and insurance companies for the purposes of civil and criminal court cases.
Wonder when they will hook up these black boxes to GPS and cellular towers.
I think the government should require that the black boxes be dipped in gold and encrusted in diamonds.
After all, burden and cost is no object when it comes to regulation.
I’m sure it won’t take long - once they have that, won’t need speed traps or red light cameras any longer, a little software and the tickets can automatically flow based on the data from these things.
Gee, there was once a time when our elected Representatives in congress would have to actually debate and pass a law to force costly mandates on an entire industry and take away large parts of our freedom. I guess we've just decided to dispense with that archaic formality and allow some unelected groups of government employees to create laws out of thin air.
gotta have that “black box.....so ya can do this...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/oregon-governor-looking-at-gps-based-mileage-tax-to-fund-roads/
Obama’s abuse of the executive office continues.
Imagine if they did . .
Wife: Slow down.
Husband: Why?
Wife: You're going too fast.
Husband: I'm going the speed limit. Do you want to drive?
Wife: No, freeways make me nervous.
Husband: Well, nagging makes me nervous.
Wife: You're just like your mother. I'm going to start calling you Helen.
Husband: You leave my mother out of this.
Wife: Slow down, Helen.
Husband: I should have listened to Mom when she told me you were good for nothing.
Wife: Well why didn't you just marry your mother, then? Slow down, Helen.
Husband: You think this is fast? (Presses the accelerator)
Wife: Dammit, Helen, you're going to get us killed! You missed the turn off.
Husband: I can still make it.
[Screeching. Screaming. Crashing. Steel twisting. Silence.]
Fry those effers in a few minutes. Fail.
When I was 16 in the early 1980’s I told a friend that one day our (different but future) grandchildren would ask us ‘granddad, were you really free to drive where ever you wanted to, even off road, and nobody would know?”
It may well by my children asking me that.
I just read that 65% of 2005 cars have these, and that they’ve been around since the 1990’s.
The recent Fed action just makes the data formats standard.
This is already being done to us.
Wonder how this ties in to the Federal Mileage Tax, eh?
will run the price of vehicles even higher
no thanks
Low-techs will rule.
No worries, we’ll all be riding in Johnny Cabs soon.
Soon, a guy wont be able to take a wizz in the woods without the event being recorded.
The boxes are already in most new cars.
Pretty soon they will include a tracking device and perhaps listening devices, similar to GM’s North Star.
With On Star they can listen in to your car any time they like.Tell you where you are and even tell you if the air is low in your tires in some models.
A perfect Black Market will araise: altering or deactivating the software in the black box. They’ll probably outsource the work to India which means 65% of the time they’ll be faulty anyway.
Doesn’t that gm crap push the button stuff already do that? Talk about watching the downfall of a once proud country. I can hear the whining now..” but it tells me when to go potty”.