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| DOT Proposes Mandating Cars Broadcast Location, Direction and Speed |
| 2014-08-27 |
| [CNSNEWS] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, published last week an "advanced notice of proposed rLearned Elders of Islamking" 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 rLearned Elders of Islamking, NHTSA is stressing its intention to protect the "privacy" of American drivers. "This document initiates rLearned Elders of Islamking 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." "An integrated V2V system is connected to proprietary data busses and can provide highly accurate information using in-vehicle information to generate the Basic Safety Message," says NHTSA's technical report on "Readiness of V2V for Application." "The integrated system both broadcasts and receives BSMs," says the report. "In addition, it can process the content of received messages to provide advisories and/or warnings to the driver of the vehicle in which it is installed." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 your tires already broadcast a lot more than their pressure. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-27 20:35 |
| #2 RJ - it's not about tracking the cars...it's about tracking you...and me..all of us |
| Posted by: Warthog 2014-08-27 20:16 |
| #1 Sounds like a tremendous waste of time, and computer memory. Plus, as people have cars stolen, sell them, and wreck them, seems a huge waste, You'll be tracking cars that don' exist. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-08-27 18:20 |