Friday, April 20, 2012

How the Government Will Takeover Your Car by Remote Control

Earlier this week I pointed out how a bill in Congress, “Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act,” also known as MAP-21, will require all vehicles by 2015 to carry a "black box" recorder. I thought it was bad enough that the government would be monitoring are driving. In fact, the ramifications are much worse.

Eric Peters, an automotive columnist, has dug into the bill and reports his take on what it means:
EDRs tied into your car’s GPS will give them – the government and its corporate fuck buddies – literal physical control over (hack) “your” vehicle. This is not conspiracy theorizing. It is technological fact. Current GM vehicles equipped with the same technology about to be mandated for every vehicle can be disabled remotely. Just turned off. All the OnStar operator has to do is send the appropriate command over the GPS to your car’s computer, which controls the engine. It is one of the features touted by OnStar – of course, as a “safety” feature.

In the future, it will be used to limit your driving – for the sake of “energy conservation” or perhaps, “the environment.” It will be the perfect, er, vehicle, for implementing U.N. Agenda 21 – the plan to herd all of us formerly free-range tax cattle into urban feedlots. So much easier to control us this way. No more bailing out to the country or living off the grid – unless you get there (and to your work) by walking.

The pieces are all coming together.

First, computer-controlled cars. Next, widespread adoption of GPS in cars. Then, EDRs tied into them...

Our cars were once a tangible expression of the freedom ideal. They are fast becoming mobile cages. And the really devilish thing is they’re making us pay the costs of our own imprisonment, too.

4 comments:

  1. Keith, that's exactly what they want.

    I quote: ''It will be the perfect, er, vehicle, for implementing U.N. Agenda 21 – the plan to herd all of us formerly free-range tax cattle into urban feedlots. So much easier to control us this way. No more bailing out to the country or living off the grid – unless you get there (and to your work) by walking.''

    Walking doesn't get us far, but neither does scooter. Unless you're prepared to take your family for a holiday bu driving from Chicago to Miami using only scooters.

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  2. You can bet there will be a market for black box hackers who can bypass the intrusion functions by the government, send false data, etc.

    The thing is, there is no talk of forcing older cars to retrofit this tech so those cars will become more and more valuable over time. Of course, there could be another insidious "Cars for cash" program again aimed at getting older cars off the road.

    Perhaps a good long term investment strategy would be buying cars that are in great shape and just storing them for 5, 10 or 20 years.

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