The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called on commercial bus and truck manufacturers to install data recorders often referred to as “black box” recorders.
NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart said that despite “more than a decade of recommendations by the NTSB,” federal regulators at the U.S. Department of Transportation had not required them in large motor vehicles. If you didn’t know nearly every car manufactured after 2005 has a black box, the NHTSA has an entire page dedicated to Event Data Recorders.
According to the Sacramento Bee the American Bus Association (ABA) has expressed support for the installation of data recorders. Of course they support the NTSB’s drive to surveil every bus, they receive $12 million in grants from DHS every year!
The ABA has received $300 million in grants from DHS since 2003. DHS calls it the “Over-The-Road Bus Security Grant Program”
But that’s not all, they also receive $3 million a year in DHS grants called the “Intercity Bus Security Grant Program.” “Since 2003 over $99 million in grants have been awarded to the motorcoach industry by DHS through the Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP).”
Click here, here & here to read about the ABA’s close relationship with DHS.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is working closely with DHS to implement speed limiter devices and tracking devices in every vehicle. Click, here, here & here to read about SAE’s close relationship with DHS.
Ford’s new S-Max car comes standard equipped with a speed limiter device.
It’s only a matter of time before speed limiter cars are the ‘norm’ in America!
Sean McNally, a spokesman for the American Trucking Associations (ATA), said that the industry trade group “supports the use of many technologies, including event data recorders, that can positively impact safety.” There’s that same tired old excuse, its for safety, believe us! It’s for profit and surveillance.
Click here, here & here to read about the ATA’s close relationship with DHS.
In the DOT’s “Playing It Safe – NHTSA Update” they reveal how the government wants EVERY
vehicle to be connected wirelessly.
It’s called the “U.S. DOT Connected Vehicle Program” it’s a vehicle-to-vehicle wireless communication (tracking) system! Click here and here to get the latest news and updates about the program.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has written numerous articles describing the privacy dangers of “connected cars“.
Talking cars will tell the government your speed and location:
The Drug Enforcement Administration is building a massive highway license-plate-camera program to spy on millions of innocent drivers Traffic cameras everywhere are taking pictures of our license plates. And police can tap into that database, “putting a wealth of information in the hands of local officials who can track vehicles in real time on major roadways.”
Ford Global VP Jim Farley said last year “We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing. By the way, we don’t supply that data to anyone,” he told attendees.
Page 48 lists The NTSB’s objectives:
– Gain user acceptance information from uninitiated drivers. In other words tell the public it’s for their safety, over and over until they believe it.
– Estimate safety system effectiveness. In other words publish numerous B.S. independent studies claiming it will increase driver safety.
The ATA and Road Safe America petitioned our government to require the installation of speed limiting devices on heavy trucks. The “NHTSA published a grant notice on January 3, 2011 announcing our intention to propose a new FMVSS that would require the installation of speed limiting devices on heavy trucks.”
It should come as no surprise that Road Safe America works with DHS. Click here & here to read more. FYI, Road Safe America founder Stephen Owings is the chairman of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee which has close ties to DHS, click here & here to find out more. Deb Owings is a Director of the Virginia Motorcoach Association which has close ties to DHS.
To find out more read “Homeland Security And The Trucking Industry” and “Safety Impacts of Speed Limiter Device Installations on Commercial Trucks and Buses“.
Our government is spying on our cars:
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-feds-want-speed-limiters-and.html
another reason for some to keep their older cars and or restore older cars for daily use
so the classics now have another great selling feature
And I’m sure this is one of the reasons no one’s buying new cars… (this, and poverty, of course)
I’d imagine that most newer vehicles already have ‘speed limiters’ already. My 2001 Ford will not exceed 105 mph. (to the best I can remember anymore)
Also, from what I’ve read… anything newer than 2005 is ‘drive by wire’, so that what used to be mechanical in nature is superceded by electronics. Electronics that can be hacked, tracked, and ‘smacked’.
You don`t suppose those black boxes could be used in conjunction w/ taxing every my you drive ?
Truckers are screwed now for the most part, at least company drivers. 67mph, to save fuel. Problem is, we get rear ended by 4 wheelers doin 80 plus, legally(legal speed limit in many states now, and more being added all the time”.
Owner operaters can speed as fast as they want, but they’re fools if they do, they speed themselves out of any profits.
Bad situation all around. Bottom line is
“LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE”
Can these black boxes be disabled, if so does it effect something else connected to it such as lights or ignition? I have a couple of newer model trucks and have wondered if there is a way to simply unplug the black box.
Not anymore,, the systems are too intertwined , it will disable the vehicle
That’s what I thought. It’s one thing to know its there, disabling it is impossible. No surprise.
Its not about disabling the system but rather the communication it sends and receives. I have a vehicle and the onstar is disconnected since I have no need for it and they have no need to know how fast or where I drive.
When the antenna is disconnected just like onstar then no more data is free to sell to a third party or worse the gooberment.
I had a vehicle with on star, I sold it three years ago. Every vehicle since the 90’s has a gps or black box. I had a couple of expeditions, and still do have one that has that little blinking light on the dash near the lower end of the windshield, that I believe its what sends and receives information, I could be wrong. I’m no mechanic, just a housewife. I was wondering if there is a way to disconnect that, or disable it by pulling a fuse without disabling something important.
Tax every mile is what I was thinking .
Deb,
Without specific vehicle information (make, model and year) this is as close to some help in the right direction I can give you.
Hope this helps.
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/720643-factory-gps-antenna-location.html
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1205429-sdars-antenna-failure-thus-no-nav-or-sirius.html