Federal Government Is About To Be Able To Track Any Car

"Jesse Shaffer" (7esse)
08/19/2014 at 21:06 • Filed to: blackbox

The federal government will now be able to track our cars (please share):

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DISCUSSION (11)

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jesse Shaffer
08/19/2014 at 21:12

please, it's a computer. They'll be hacked and bypassed in days, maybe weeks. Look at modern iPhones and androids - essentially small computers. They're jailbroken and rooted before they are even released to the public.

Brian Silvestro > Jesse Shaffer
08/19/2014 at 21:12

Make sure they have proper track experience and safety equipment before letting them do it.

Jedidiah > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
08/19/2014 at 21:15

Unfortunately that will void your warranty.

There will be away around it, but it sucks for anyone that buys one brand new.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Jesse Shaffer
08/19/2014 at 21:17

but no one is reporting on this

I hope you'll forgive me, but this is the first I've heard of such a law. Have any major news site/auto media outlets covered this?

Conan > Jesse Shaffer
08/19/2014 at 21:23

It's deal with able provided you didn't get the handy dandy Wi-fi/GPS.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jedidiah
08/19/2014 at 22:04

I'm sure big motors will have something to say when the new vehicle purchases plummet and used sales rise.

I did some spot checks and haven't seen any recent news. The original article is from 2012 and with the recent announcements in security and data mining/spying (cough NSA) I think there will be a tidal wave of protest should it actually come to existence.

48 Spoons > Jesse Shaffer
08/19/2014 at 22:08

So do have any actual sources for this, because it looks like a bunch of scary assumptions. These devices have been around for a while now, and from my understanding they just generally record a short amount of data that helps determine what happened in case of an accident. There is no GPS and the data can only be pulled by physical connection and depending on the state can require a warrant to get at.

Can they in the future get worse, sure. But for now its not a big and something that for better or worse is already thing most manufactures add to new cars, even if its mostly to data mine their the efficiency of their own systems.

This article is pretty recent and goes into some detail of what is actually stored in these black boxes: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/ca…

Viggen > Jesse Shaffer
08/19/2014 at 22:37

Let them. So long as I have my Cherokee I don't need a new car. Ever.

Jesse Shaffer > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/19/2014 at 23:01

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/black-…

Jesse Shaffer > 48 Spoons
08/20/2014 at 08:21

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j…

Read just two pages in, and you can see that automated notification of crashes is one of the first things mentioned by the NHTSA. All cars will be GPS linked to a monitoring system. That's the aim. It starts with this regulation.

Tohru > Jesse Shaffer
08/20/2014 at 21:36

Well, sounds like I'll never own a new car.