http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-04...comment-4402861

If anyone thinks I am driving a car that can be controlled by the Feds or some teenage hacker, their high. Good thing parts for 70's and 80's full size GM cars are plentiful...

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Worried about “pre-crime?” What about “pre-crash?”

The geniuses at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTS) are so concerned about your “safety,” they have decided to take it into their own hands and make it mandatory that your car wirelessly communicate with other vehicles on the road. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx went so far as to say the technology could save “thousands of lives and even prevent accidents in the first place.” The concept of “pre-crash” has been born.

As in so many other aspects of life, there is a top down push to remove all control from the individual to the collective (recall the MSNBC host who proclaimed children don’t belong to their parents), typically justified within the content of the “war on terror,” and always justified with “it’s for your own good.” Apparently, we aren’t capable of making our own choices in anything any more, including something as simple as driving a car.

This push to exert control within individual vehicles is nothing new and appears to be a global phenomenon. For instance, just last week I posted an article titled: The EU May Mandate a “Remote Stopping Device” in All Cars for Police Use.

Now we learn from The Detroit News that:

Washington— The U.S. Transportation Department said Monday it plans to propose requiring all new cars and trucks to eventually communicate with one another, which could one day help reduce up to 80 percent of crash deaths.



But under the tentative timetable laid out, automakers aren’t likely to be required to install the in-vehicle communication devices until around 2020 — and even then, the devices will be phased in.



Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will begin working on a proposal to require vehicle-to-vehicle communication in future cars and trucks. He said he hopes to propose the regulation by the time the Obama administration leaves office in January 2017. NHTSA gives automakers at least 18 months of lead time before mandating new technology.



Foxx said at a news conference the technology could save “thousands of lives and even prevent accidents in the first place.”



Acting NHTSA chief David Friedman said the technology is a “game changer” and “nothing short of revolutionary.”

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Quote: Rev wrote in post #2

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Vehicle-to-Vehicle" Communications

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Will it have one of these...

...that I can use to communicate with the assholes on the interstate?

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I use that now to communicate on the highways in my low tech car. That and a 135 decibel air horn I got at JC Whitney.

I consider driving a contact sport.