Big Brother is Watching

[Hemicolt]

Don't forget, the insurance companies are offering the boxes to install in your car that monitor "safe driving".
I believe in the long run the only thing Orwell will be wrong about will be that there will be no need for the Thought Police or the Ministry of Love. The majority will run down the control path with open arms.

[budnate]

a couple of years ago the Vette guys went crazy removing the on-star on the C-5 forum with the whole on-star backlash, they also were going after the black data boxes,

there was some work around then that the car didn't miss the connection and ran fine, guessing the big three took note and I bet the system's cant be disabled without killing the rig these days.

[Schonyenko2]

Up side: If you are in a crash with air bag deployment, it's automatically called into the 911 system. It gives location of the incident, and tries to contact the occupants. Relays real time info for responding emergency crews.

Down side: Potential for abuse/invasion of privacy/hacking into the system, etc.

Nothing more that I could really say without pushing the bounds of being political.

[Lynn]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Schonyenko2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Up side: If you are in a crash with air bag deployment, it's automatically called into the 911 system. It gives location of the incident, and tries to contact the occupants. Relays real time info for responding emergency crews.

Down side: Potential for abuse/invasion of privacy/hacking into the system, etc.

Nothing more that I could really say without pushing the bounds of being political. </div></div>

Say more Ken.
Anything with this much potential for abuse will get abused.
For me, it is simple. I don't believe the good outweighs the bad.
Our 19 year old cannot to this day parallel park. He wasn't required to for the driver's test. I can't believe they give a driver's license to someone who cannot parallel park. Guess he is waiting for one with park assist.