Thread: A Black Box in your car

Originally Posted by olbod

At the end of the day I will be quite happy to camp out there and use a riding and pack camel to collect me stores.
I really dont want much more to do with our modern socialist police state.
Once upon a time it was good oh, eh.

Robert living out in the bush and be self sufficient is a rebel behavior!!
How the politicians and other economic vampires are going to survive if they cannot trace you and ask for your contribution to their living standards?
It is good that some of us are quite happy to live a simple life and far away of the big smoke

Originally Posted by Dougal

And how does an OBD2 plugin detect tailgating?

Inertia switches in the black box and a program that looks at brake and throttle position at the same time. Using an algorithm it works out if you are too close.... Apparently...

Nip it in the bud, take up a petition, present it to your local member. Quite often our elected rabble put up something like this, if no one objects, they claim a mandate, & slip it thru. Constant surveillance is one of the cornerstones of democracy, don't get complacent & fall asleep at the wheel. Bob

Originally Posted by bacicat

Inertia switches in the black box and a program that looks at brake and throttle position at the same time. Using an algorithm it works out if you are too close.... Apparently...

Nah, they are assuming that there will be 100% uptake and every vehicle will be equipped with the device. Then they will be able to wirelessly detect the distance to the other devices.

Will have to accidentaly drown it for a week before install.

No thanks.
I need less electronics in the cars thanks.

Originally Posted by bob10

Nip it in the bud, take up a petition, present it to your local member. Quite often our elected rabble put up something like this, if no one objects, they claim a mandate, & slip it thru. Constant surveillance is one of the cornerstones of democracy, don't get complacent & fall asleep at the wheel. Bob

Agree Bob! Victorian motorcyclists are currently fighting (again) against the compulsory introduction of FNP's (front number plates), which we know are only a forerunner for the transponder they really want to introduce. This will effect ALL vehicles, and will be a huge invasion of our liberties, not to mention potentially dangerous, if they employ the biggest nasty; remote cutting of engine if detected exceeding the speed limit 30kph or above. Think of the implications of that! We need to stay vigilant; and not always do authorities presenting these 'harmless' devices, tell us the whole story, instead they hide behind inducements of helping us to save ourselves from destruction, or expense etc. It's always about a bigger picture, and generally involves revenue, or some form of control, for their own agenda.

Saw on TV here a few years ago a reporter who had a similar devise fitted by the instance company. Idea was they could reduce the cost of insurance with the box fitted as your driving would be monitored. Once big
Brother was watching you would then drive in a sensible manner.

When after a week they reviewed the driving with the insurance company there were a number of instances of poor driving. Reporter had a good reason for each and none were as the lack box reading by the insurance company said. Stopping quickly due to a car putting out if a side street when should not have. Speeding up and slowing down to pass a car and more of the same like.

Now which version do you think the insurance company believed and calculated the premium on?

Be much easier to apply if it was some sort of (secret/hidden/trojan?) app on your smart phone, and each time you synched via bluetooth, handsfree or similar, it traced your journey, using the phone's inbuilt GPS, accelerometers and data storing and transmitting capability.

No need to be in phone coverage area, it'd simply store info till you returned to civilisation, and you'd never know.

If a good programmer really wanted to develop such a thing, it'd probably take from now till tomorrow lunchtime to get working...