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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Re: Nanny state run wild: U.S. seeks to block
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Thu Feb 16 18:53:53 2012
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:12:49 -0800
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:06:18 -0500
From: Armando Stettner <aps@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Nanny state run wild: U.S. seeks to block
vehicle electronic devices
To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Lauren, for the list, if you wish.
When deciding finally between a Toyota Highlander and an Acura MDX, all other things being even (which they were not), an important factor was the flexibility of the factory-installed GPS and its database. At least for the 2007 systems, while you were driving in the Toyota, you could not ask (configure) the GPS system for the nearest gas station of restaurant or such. If you were already on a route, you could not change it or inquire about gas or food along the route. You had to pull over and stop. This was an incredible restriction. At the time, I liked Toyotas more so than Honda/Acura. This single fact pushed me toward the otherwise better MDX.
I sure hope this nonsense stops.
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> Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Nanny state run wild: U.S. seeks to block vehicle electronic devices
> Date: February 16, 2012 4:43:25 PM EST
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> Nanny state run wild: U.S. seeks to block vehicle electronic devices
>
> http://j.mp/zebq9f (Washington Post)
>
> "Drivers won't be able to text, browse, tweet or dial on
> factory-installed devices if auto manufacturers follow new federal
> guidelines to disable the gadgets while the wheels are rolling. In
> announcing the latest step in his campaign against distracted driving
> Thursday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the government
> might next extend the guidelines to cover virtually every portable
> electronic device that might find its way into a vehicle."
>
> - - -
>
> Note that this is currently directed at factory-installed devices, not
> portable ones. However, the unintended consequences of such controls,
> as drivers try to work around them and turn increasingly to portable
> devices as a result, could actually cause far more problems than they
> solve. Blocking portable devices, as LaHood is now suggesting might be
> the next step, would have enormous implications since all passengers
> in vehicles would likely be affected, not just drivers.
>
> Nanny State Run Wild.
>
> --Lauren--
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