Government to require vehicle-to-vehicle communication as safety measure [Big Gov't Knows Best]

News Herald ^ | 2/3/14 | Dana Hull

[Mouton]

So, this will go into effect before the pile of dung leaves office. My current vehicle is 5 years old. I am approaching 70 so my next vehicle will probably be my last I buy. It will be a 2016 for sure.

[jps098]

Sure, and make it so no-one under 30 can ever afford a new car. Every time the government mandates a new add-on the price gets higher. Then we get to listen to liberals complain about the high cost of new cars, and the greedy auto companies.

[Mycroft Holmes]

I went to a talk by a California DOT type about 10 years ago where he outlined what he thought was the future of transportation. The primary problem in California wrt traffic is the availability of dirt for new roads. There isn't any.

The only ways to increase capacity is by stacking roads vertically or stacking cars "nut-to-butt" horizontally. California, being earthquake country, sees nut-to-butt as the more workable solution.

From a software/hardware point of view this is all quite manageable. I expect that it will be abused every bit as often as the internet is and by much the same parties. Everything has its price, want to play?

[SandRat]

Make room for Robo-COP Auto GESTAPO

[wally_bert]

I fix and sometimes cobble together hardware and have some automotive background ancient though it is, would you want a partner?

[deport]

This won’t be mandated for a while. They are trying to get it approved before Obama
leaves office and then it will take some time to implement into all cars. jmo.

Some autos already have Lane Warning devices to let you know when you get to
close to the lane marker. They beep or some use a viberation in the
drivers seat. Some slow down if you are using cruise and are gaining on a
vehicle in front of you in order to match their speed. All these take
some getting used to.

[fella]

This will allow the government to locate/track any vehicle anywhere at any time. When they decide to move against you they will know where to go to get you. But it’s all for your safety of course.

[RadiationRomeo]

Just before the Chinese attack they will activate their V2V malware and cause all the cars in the country to crash.

A much smaller scale conspiracy is that the use of V2V will grow and grow. One of the first changes is that the police/government will be able to stop your car at the press of a button, and probably locking you in car too.

[Moose Burger]

The perfect way to go in the “the car makes what we think it’s best, not what you want it to do” direction. Surely Google is somehow involved.

[ThunderSleeps]

I'll do that, if they get serious about this and I get serious about that. I'm thinking it will definitely have a hardware component. The vehicle management system will probably be pretty well locked-down in software. Either difficult or expensive to get into/reprogram.

So my first thought is a shield over their GPS antenna. System has to have a failsafe mode for driving in tunnels, parking garages, mountains/valleys, urban areas where GPS can be iffy. Or heck, what if GPS goes down? So make the car think it is blocked from the sky. Then need a shield over their antenna(s). Car will think there's simply no-one else around.

The net effect is that your car could never report what you're doing (speed, position) or even record it for later dump. No other cars around you would be able to ID you. This effectively drops your car out of the system.

Then for fun include a small antenna and transceiver with say a USB interface... Write either a standard notebook (windows/linux?) or smartphone (Android) app to have some fun. Have it pull info from everyone around you, maybe fake being someone else, etc. Lots of fun could be had with that app... But it will require some kind of hardware component to do the transmit/receive as well as some interface logic/circuitry to talk to a computer or smartphone.

[poobear]

Remember the barry’s campaign slogan, “Where’s MY pie?” He’s found an endless banquet!

[moovova]

Government to require vehicle-to-vehicle communication as safety measure

"Hey, Goodlooking. You got plans for later this evening? I know a great little detailing shop. What do you say? You up for a some romantic suds & shine?"

[Age of Reason]

I’ve got so many damn controls on my cars dash that even after two years, I don’t know how to turn the interior light on aside from opening the door.

[blackdog]

Gee, I hope my car can log on to the server?

A government controlled vehicle kill-switch for persons it does not like.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What could go wrong with that? :-)

[blackdog]

So I'll drive around an old Pinto with a faraday cage around it, or glue on Insulfab with the conductive sides bonded. I'll wallpaper the car with it. They also make silver plated, carbon blackened window shielding so nothing comes out or in thru the glass. A white shot noise generator creates havok too. It costs about $5.00 to make. Range is limited, but it will prevent your car from being read, and stomp over the signals with noise in any car within about 25 feet of yours.

Don't expect to listen to your radio though.

[blackdog]

So the Nation Highway Transportation Administration wants to get their slice of Homeland Security Pie?

[ThunderSleeps]

I like it. You could sell it as a safety item. With this white noise generator no distracting cell calls/texts while driving. ;-) Radio? Just hook up your MP3 player or smartphone and play some recorded playlists...

[blackdog]

They will likely call it a silencer and control it with the backing of the ATF. Or if you want to buy one made by engprofessionals (which is most likely what's all around the Whitehouse and their limosenes)................

http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pd-1000001300%3Aepsg%3Apro-pn-346C/noise-source-10-mhz-to-265-ghz?&cc=US&lc=eng

[bgill]

Saw this coming with those black boxes and On Star back during that oh so innocent Cash for Clunkers. Now, any dissenter can be Hastingscided at a click of a mouse.