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US may disable all in-car mobile phones (Obamarxism)
The Register UK ^ | 11/17/10 | Rik Mysllewsli

Posted on 11/18/2010 5:25:22 PM PST by pissant

The US government may require cars to include scrambling tech that would disable mobile-phone use by drivers, and perhaps passengers.

"I think it will be done," US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said on Wednesday morning, according to The Daily Caller. "I think the technology is there and I think you're going to see the technology become adaptable in automobiles to disable these cell phones."

LaHood is on a self-described "rampage" against distracted driving, and if making it impossible to use a mobile phone while in a car can save lives, he's all for it — although, according to TDC, LaHood also emphasized the role of "personal responsibility."

In a Tuesday blog post announcing an online video series, "Faces of Distracted Driving", which presents first-person accounts of distracted-driving tragedies, LaHood noted that "Just last year, nearly 5,500 people were killed and 500,000 more were injured in distracted driving-related crashes.

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodot; cellphone; lahood; larrysinclairslovr; obama; telecom
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To: Inyo-Mono

A better idea would be prison time for any idiot involved in a crash while using and driving


41 posted on 11/18/2010 6:51:23 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: TexasCajun
Well, it was a good company while it lasted.

It was NEVER a good company.

42 posted on 11/18/2010 6:52:39 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: MistrX
So, I can eat a bacon chili cheeseburger while driving, but not use my hands-free phone?

Actually, they're planning on banning the bacon chili cheeseburger completely, never mind while driving.

43 posted on 11/18/2010 6:57:32 PM PST by Spartan79 (Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem.)
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To: pissant

I want to know who elected Ray LaHood to make brand new laws for us?


44 posted on 11/18/2010 6:57:36 PM PST by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
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To: pissant
Solution is simple,boycott all jackboot motors vehicles.Keep your current,or, buy an older vehicle without this jackboot technology. The industry goes belly up, we crush the UAW(no more bailouts with a solidly Conservative House) and we make the Obarky regime look even worse.A win-win.
45 posted on 11/18/2010 7:00:04 PM PST by nomad
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To: VRWC For Truth
There will be a device that defeats this nonsense on the day it is installed.


46 posted on 11/18/2010 7:00:23 PM PST by Charles Martel ("Oh, Bother", said Pooh... as he chambered another round.)
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To: pissant

Mumbles LaHood is a freaking retard. They’ll figure out a work-around in about 30 seconds.


47 posted on 11/18/2010 7:01:14 PM PST by kiryandil
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To: TexasCajun

ON STAR is NOT a cell phone. If you don’t own a car with ON STAR, don’t make stupid comments.


48 posted on 11/18/2010 7:03:17 PM PST by supermop (Somebody has to clean up the mess he will leave)
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To: Jim Noble

RINO


49 posted on 11/18/2010 7:06:14 PM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: supermop

On Star is a cell phone... you just don’t realize it.. it is also a tracking device. the cellular is how they communicate with you..

C


50 posted on 11/18/2010 7:07:14 PM PST by ARA
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To: supermop

On Star is a cell phone... you just don’t realize it.. it is also a tracking device. the cellular is how they communicate with you..

C


51 posted on 11/18/2010 7:07:19 PM PST by ARA
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To: supermop

On Star is a cell phone... you just don’t realize it.. it is also a tracking device. the cellular is how they communicate with you..

C


52 posted on 11/18/2010 7:07:30 PM PST by ARA
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To: supermop

On Star is a cell phone... you just don’t realize it.. it is also a tracking device. the cellular is how they communicate with you..

C


53 posted on 11/18/2010 7:07:30 PM PST by ARA
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To: pissant

I’m gonna live so I can die the way I want to. F’ em.


54 posted on 11/18/2010 7:07:46 PM PST by 3boysdad (Please tell your congressczar to tell the EPA and MSHA to FO!)
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To: pissant
"I think it will be done," US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said on Wednesday morning,

I lived around DC long enough to have seen these arrogant @$$holes in the backseats of their GOVT Towncars and armored SUV's (Cabinet Secretaries and 'potent Congressmens) with cell phones jammed against their ears. This will never fly.

55 posted on 11/18/2010 7:12:58 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: All
Some thoughts on this foolishness:

It would take years to develop, then implement - prolly starting with Government Motors cars, which will strangle off any dim hope they had of profitability.

There are problems with leakage, crushing pedestrians ability to make phone calls which would require insulating and weak signals which makes trunk mounted antennae and BT headsets a great stocking stuffer for the motoring phalker.

I can't imagine that AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile have so little presence on K-Street that this sort of crap would be allowed to decimate their industries.

Since a scrambler needs power and an antennae, I see two immediate weak points. Permanent fix can be had by bridging the black and red power leads across a consumer grade stun gun's probes. Can't get in trouble because the circuitry got fried.

What frequency does 4G take and would it too be scrambled? How long before Skype has an easy to use application that fits on the popular cell-phones that use this technology?

Wouldn't this be a problem for LEOs who seem to be major transgressors of comm equipment while driving? Even though they would likely get waivers, just being in proximity to tampered vehicles ought to muck up those systems.

Then we have the malicious teenager hack. So once techniques to defeat/remove these devices become available over the internet, how many will be gutted from cars, attached to amplifiers and used to play pranks on the population? Soon cell-phone use will be so inconvenient and disrupted that we will regress technologically back forty years.

56 posted on 11/18/2010 7:13:48 PM PST by The Theophilus
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To: pissant

So, will they next require that my minivan automatically duct tape my three children’s mouths when I put it in drive? All of them talking, singing, etc. all at the same time is far more distracting than talking on my cell. The only accident I have ever had (backing into a tree in by my driveway) was caused by being distracted by a child crying.


57 posted on 11/18/2010 7:18:27 PM PST by keepitreal ( Good manners never go out of style)
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To: ridesthemiles

Congress people and other special people will be granted “waivers.”


58 posted on 11/18/2010 7:22:56 PM PST by joelt
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To: B Knotts
This administration is filled with control freaks.

I think there's a word for that: fascists.

59 posted on 11/18/2010 7:40:32 PM PST by newzjunkey
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To: pissant

I think they should put a little Red/Green flashing light on the top of all cars ... that turns on when the driver is on the phone (I could build that) ... then you’d know to get out of the way when you see one coming! But don’t take the phones away. Now how’s that for compromise? /s


60 posted on 11/18/2010 8:03:06 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (You are just jealous because the voices aren't talking to YOU!)
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