Posted on 08/27/2014 6:34:34 AM PDT by blam
August 27, 2014
By Terence P. Jeffrey
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, published last week an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking" on "vehicle-to-vehicle communications."
What NHTSA is proposing could begin a transformation in the American transportation system that makes our lives better and freer — or gives government more power over where we go and when.
In announcing its proposed rulemaking, NHTSA is stressing its intention to protect the "privacy" of American drivers.
"This document initiates rulemaking that would propose to create a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, FMVSS No. 150, to require vehicle-to-vehicle communication capability for light vehicles," says NHTSA's dryly-worded notice.
What do vehicle-to-vehicle communications entail?
NHTSA has crafted a nice phrase to describe the information cars would broadcast. It is the "Basic Safety Message."
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(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Cars already transmit this information via sound, infrared, and visible electromagnetic radiation which is how we avoid collisions now. It’s up to the receiver to process the gigabytes of data already out there. Industry should develop what is useful, not some Fedzilla central planner.
This is a good point. Next time a postal employee goes postal, we can insist that it's for everyone's safety.
“If it saves the life of even one child...”
;’)
You don't have to buy a GM car. If you do buy a GM car, paying for it so YOU can use it is optional. But, they can always turn it on if THEY feel like it, so unless you disable it (unplug the transmitter, remove the antenna cable, etc.) it's ready to help you, or to "help" you by monitoring you.
That's one of my favorites! I've been arguing this since I first heard it in grade school.
Driving is no more a privilege than walking on your own two feet. It's absolutely one of our basic natural and Constitutional rights.
Mileage taxes
Moving violation revenues
Insurance companies cash cow
Big Brother Stare
Vehicle kill switch
Control of steering/ braking/acceleration
Welcome to your mobile gulag, citizen.
The system will not collect or store any data identifying individuals or individual vehicles, nor will it enable the government to do so.”
“There is no data in the safety messages exchanged by vehicles or collected by the V2V system that could be used by law enforcement or private entities to personally identify a speeding or erratic driver,” the report said. “The system — operated by private entities — will not enable tracking through space and time of vehicles linked to specific owners or drivers.”
Then what the hell is the data for?
use a Tom Tom if I go somewhere when I don’t know where it is which is very rare.
When it’s not being used I take it out of the vehicle and turn it off in the box
I thought I'd read that 'they' cab still access your phone even when it's off.
Put it in a faraday cage like box?
?? That’s what eyeballs are for.
I guess poor people can just walk from now on. $$
:)
My car knows where I am but it won't tell me.
LOL
More like TCAS.
put those in cars... and within 2 years you’ll start receiving tickets.
“Hey, driving’s a privilege not a right, right?
That’s what they say, however when “privileges” are passed out by the government via laws, wouldn’t the equal protection clause be applicable?
I think one could make the argument that it is...
“Put it in a faraday cage like box? “
I’ve read reports that powered-down smart phones can still be accessed remotely and their microphones and cameras can be activated without this being detectable.
There are a number of shielding pockets and cases on the market, unfortunately we don’t have any way to test them unless we have a buddy in the NSA.
“We want to pull a Michael Hastings on anyone, anywhere, at any time, for any reason. Make it happen, people!”
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