Yet another reason used car prices continue to head north.
The usual crowd will say its about ‘safety’ and that ‘if it saves just one life’, etc, etc. But, realistically, it’s another poke in the eye to people who don’t like .gov having their thumb on them.
If you think this is just fine because “If you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear” then how would you feel if that technology was in your pacemaker, insulin pump, or internal defibrillator
It is my hope that people far more technologically savvy than I will have DIY guides to disabling this sort of nonsense.
What a bunch of pricks!
I see a booming new business in the sale of hacked control chips for new vehicles.
Actually already has been a market for those since the ’80s.
When automotive ECUs came along to fight emissions, they made tweaking & tuning your car for performance more difficult. Or rather, the game changed. A screwdriver & a timing light were no longer enough to hop it up.
Aftermarket chip makers came along to make either entirely new, reprogrammed ECUs or modules that plugged into the harness in between the ECU & its sensors -fooling the ECU into providing more performance.
Every internal combustion engine has a performance envelope and matching parameters. The factory range of operation was set for emissions & maybe economy. The FUN range of operation was different. (Timing advance curve, injector pulse (or, early on, carb richness), boost level, shift points, Larger throttle body for more Mass air, etc.)
The chip guys make swaps that can boost HP by 10-20-30hp – depending on some other mods. (and running 93+ octane, of course).
Noticeable power. A related issue nowadays, is that annoying stop/start feature when a 2020 on up car come to the stop sign.
You can turn it off for each driving session, but it comes back on next time you start the car. Sux. But a company came along to fix it – https://www.autostopeliminator.com/ .No more problem.
So I’d say, yes! Someone will come along with an excellent fix for the “kill switch” feature.
It’s just code, after all. Anything can be reverse engineered.
I had a friend try to disable onstar and the on-board GPS from a GM truck and it wouldn’t start. He had to get a hacked computer module to make it run. The next one he just rebuilt a older Yukon.
every time I hear a woman say “If you aren’t doing anything wrong then you have nothing to hide” I ask then “Can I dump out you purse and go through the contents”.
Suddenly they become very cagey.
Or their phone
Its already there, they arejust looking for permission to use it legally. An acquaintance of mine wrote the chip program for Daimler/Chrysler, and other brands, the government requested a further 30 some features be writen in.
I’m not even surprised. I’d sure appreciate it if you would tell us what they were. Any you can remember, one or two?
Lets Go Brandon! FJB!
November can’t come fast enough
The elections will be stolen again, why bother until the last(how many depends on how corrupt the area is) is rectified and the perps pay publicly. See the story of Antrim County,Mi the only place a real investigation of the vote fraud happened.
Newer cars (any with satellite connection) have had similar features,not paying the note for a couple months and it won’t start and the repo tow is on the way,police can also contact manufactures and get location and shut downs.
And you think used cars & trucks are expensive now, since so many of the new ones can’t be sold for the want of chips. 2022 has got to become the year of NO! No more, no compliance, no submission, no obeying, NO! The most powerful word in the English language when used in it’s proper context. BFYTW
I’m waiting for the day a car won’t go in gear if someone needs to put on the seatbelt.
Then the lawsuit because someone couldn’t escape a situation because the time to
Be Safe
Meant the situation they were trying to get away from
Caught them.
There used to be cars that required the seat belt be on to start. They had lots of false non-starts.
EMP is the ultimate kill switch. I wonder if the military has invented and EMP rifle yet? Mount it on a helicopter and those freeway chases that last forever are history.
Handheld EMP ‘guns’ already exist. They are usually somewhat close reange affairs, as I understand it.
They are in active use against ‘drones’. Some of my defense industry trade magazines have been running articles. Basically just a big microwave source and a directional antenna…
guy on the cover is holding one.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/magazine/61667
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If you leave the slightest crack open for nannyish fuckery, government will try and shove an elephant through it.
Some service vehicles are already being monitored. A friend said his service manager has called him while driving. Apparently the manager was being notified that he was swerving or driving erratically.
So what happens when you swerve to miss a pot hole, a ‘special’ driver or are dealing with other road conditions? If they can shut it down they can also throttle it up. There have been a few suspicious auto accidents (assumed car hacking) to certian people the govt didn’t like.
my 1969 Ford Bronco seems better all the time
Bicycles and deer cart trailers. I already use mine for a lot of my shopping, going to work and hauling homestead stuff.
Just think WHAT would happen if a “False Flag” (or NOT what difference?) shut off the grid in your area. WHAT Fuel? What refrigeration, What Credit Card-Banking and so on?
What Communications?
Pretty sweet way to quiet down a “Troublesome” sector wouldn’t that be?
Tyrants’ gotta tyrant.
This will get somebody killed. Think about driving on snow/ice. Perhaps slip sliding away….. Chip says you must be drunk and kills the car. You just can’t wait a bit and restart it. Gotta be dealer. So out for a deer hunt and car dead a long way to the pavement…… Froze right there.
I wouldn’t be losing any sleep over this.
First, this story originated with The Daily Caller. If you look at how well the Daily Caller does in Failed Fact Checks, it turns out the old saying about weathertainers is apropos in describing this media outlet. “Too wrong to be believed and too right to be ignored.”
Second, this is an opinion piece, not a news story. Oped writers producing opinion pieces get much more latitude in what they pen.
Sorry man but that’s lazy think. The article was written by Bob Barr. He’s not Jesus but I’d say a pretty stand up dude in his own right. You can do the googling on him.
Daily caller has a lot of click bait garbage, it’s true. (and embarrassing) But in your words “too right to be ignored” at least deserves inspection of the contents of the article for it’s credibility.
If you’ve got something that contradicts Barr’s claim, speak it.
I have only Diesel Vehicles with Mechanical Fuel Injection Pumps. The ones with Manual Transmissions can be Started by Pushing (or better, Rolling Downhill)
Another interesting thing – the Newest (2016) Heavy Diesel Trucks I have also have Mechanical- Injection and NO Catalyst/Pisswater Injection/Exhaust Filter.
How? They are Mil-Surplus, Depot-Rebuilds, New Cummins 6-CTA Engines with the Magic Dataplate – “This Engine is Emissions Exempt per DOD Regulations”
They still require electric power for the fuel pump solenoid,unless it is a screw out model(have not seen one in Many years). Pull starting a very cold engine is a bad idea,thick oil doesn’t flow very well.
Yes, the Solenoid has to be Pulled ‘On’ (not an issue on the Cummins, right out in the open) and the Fuel Lift Pump is Mechanical, too. The main thing is that Electrics like Solenoids and Starters have No real vulnerability to EW or EMP Attacks.
And the Deuce with the MAN Multifuel Engine is going to be running fine on the Engine, ATF, and Axle Oil from the millions of dead cars after the Gasoline is all Gone.
I purchased a 2019 F150 XL the lowest trim model they have. It does not have any bluetooth capability. I’m hoping without the bluetooth connectivity, there would be no possibility of a stream/connection to my truck. But who knows…