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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why not just unhook the GPS/OnStar/SYNC lead that goes to the antenna? I would think the vehicle control system would then just search for contact the same way it would if you were driving a distance in a mountain tunnel. </div></div> And can you imagine what the added cost to the motorist is for these systems. Small wonder most new vehicles are so expensive.

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the future cars ... in a school zone the car will only go the posted speed

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BARRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the future cars ... in a school zone the car will only go the posted speed
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In other countries you have to have your &quot;papers&quot; in order. Imagine if the day comes that we should only travel a certain radius of our home, and anything beyond that has to be approved. No &quot;papers&quot; will be necessary. The GPS will could set off a signal that you are outside your assigned area, and the car is shut off until it's found out what your doing there.

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Only positive remark that I have is ....hit/skips on pedestrians or personal property. My high school biology teacher was killed while riding his $5,000 high tech bike on a country road this past summer. The young girl that caused the fatality was only 1 mile from home and she hid the car in the garage. It took 5 months to bring her to justice. Sad ending to a life that had touched so many in this community

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A federal decision on car to car communications is due today.

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A huge problem with these complex technologically advanced cars is that they are basically rolling computers now, with WiFi. With that comes the possibility of hacking.

And yes, hackers can actually control your car. More and more cars are using &quot;accident avoidance&quot;, which means your brake pedal is no longer a mechanical device, it's fly by wire, controlled by the onboard computer. Same goes for your steering if you have &quot;park assist&quot;, where your car can back into a parallel parking spot.

Here's what freaked out the automakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqe6S6m73Zw

Ford and Toyota have spent millions trying to close potential holes in their software. All this after a couple of hackers showed the world how they could control your car from their laptop PC.

This will only get worse and worse, as now they're talking about devices that the police could use to disable your car, forcing it to apply its brakes. They say it's to prevent &quot;slow speed chases&quot;, but as with anything, this device will fall into the hands of bad people. I'd hate to think of some young female driver on a rural road somewhere having some creep driving up behind them, and using this device to stop her car.

Technology will be the end of us all.

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The decision is that cars will communicate with each other and the Feds will require the technology in all new vehicles at a future date.

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A glimpse of what is coming.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/02/0...tcmp=latestnews

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The decision is that cars will communicate with each other and the Feds will require the technology in all new vehicles at a future date.

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http://nation.time.com/2014/02/03/go...to-each-other/ The good thing is accidents will be reduced(supposedly), The bad, what will the information be used for? Upping your insurance rates everytime the sensor detects a miscue? Or, will insurance no longer be needed since accidents will cease? Yea, right!

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Ridiculous. There is NO way to implement a secure protocol enabling vehicles from disparate manufacturers / countries to communicate (similar to wifi / bluetooth) yet still prevent unauthorized access. Even if it were possible, it would have to be static (not randomly generated) and you could access <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">any</span></span> vehicle's ECU and gain access to said protocol.