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Hit-And-Run Driver Arrested After Her Car Calls Police
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
As technology generally continues to advance, one thing you can be sure of is the criminal justice system’s use of innovative new “tools” will grow exponentially. This can be a good thing, but it can also be a very dangerous thing. Pennsylvania’s new law that permits the use of data showing whether people are “deemed likely to commit additional crimes” in criminal sentencing, is a perfect example of how an over reliance on technology can be a threat to liberty and due process.
– From the post: Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use “Precrime” Statistics in Criminal Sentencing
Welcome to the future, ladies and gentleman.
From ZDNet:
A driver allegedly involved in two hit-and-run incidents was tracked down after her car alerted the police.
As reported by local news outlets, an unusual 911 call to emergency services took place on Friday in Port St. Lucie, Florida. You would usually expect a human voice on the end of the line, but in this scenario, a Ford vehicle alerted the police to a collision.
57-year-old woman Cathy Bernstein allegedly hit a truck before ploughing into a van on Prima Vista Boulevard, fleeing the scene after each collision. While Bernstein allegedly ran for the hills, her car had already recorded the crash and automatically contacted 911 after recording the time and date of the collision.
The car’s safety features, used by by Ford, BMW and other automakers, make use of sensors and Internet connectivity to shave down the time emergency responders take to get to the scene of an accident.
As an example, Ford’s SYNC‘s Emergency Assistance portal pushes the car to send a direct call to emergency services when the airbag is deployed or the fuel pump is deactivated — such as when a car suffers a sudden jolt against an object.
The system also gives 911 information including the car model, time, and GPS coordinates.
Usually, this would mean that drivers involved in an accident who are knocked out or cannot reach for their phones can be assisted as quickly as possible. However, in the case of hit-and-run drivers there will be nowhere to hide — as their car may snitch on them. You are automatically linked to a record of a collision’s time, the vehicle involved — and therefore the accompanying registration details — and the location.
By 2018, every new vehicle sold within the grasp of the European Union must have this kind of emergency responder technology installed. While originally planned for 2015, despite delays, the EU says eCall emergency responder technology could save up to 2,500 lives a year.
It’s a brave new world out there.
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Criminal is a nebulous term these days.
You really are missing something here.
Do you believe your government gives a shit about you?
Wake the fuck up.
....why I'll continually buy clean used vehicles made before yr 2000. Buy some car you always liked, rehab it for 5K, and enjoy driving around anon, being unplugged.
Easy to fix that little problem. Pop the headliner and disconnect the lead to the antenna on the roof. We did it to our On Star equiped trucks at work.
Shades of Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick.
....on a side note.... it seems "the boys" need more heavy duty trucks over in the mid east. I guess the Toyota pipeline is played out.
So here's the new scheme.... if you have any year f-350 watch the fuck out. They're ALL being snagged... as fast as you can park them they're being stolen off the east coast. A friend has a medium sized repair facility in the tri state area..... and he gets like 4 Fords dumped on him a week now.
All stolen / recovered
All F-350's
All 4x4's
All masked off...headlights, wind-shields, tail lights.... everything and all sprayed with some mono chromatic plastic / paint sealer that washes right off....
this weeks colors are beige and orange....
you look quick and everything checks out a-OK from 30 ft away...... but someone somewhere has a big scam going on, hundreds a week....
They were found at the Jersey docks, waiting for export to the m.e.
Sitting at the docks you say? Thats interesting.
I just rebuilt my 1976 Chevy 4wd truck...I can run over a tesla, break thru a road block, and the only electronics are the battery and the alternator...fuck you. :-) And thanks to the satanic saudis for lowering oil prices so I can actually drive the truck without going bankrupt. My thanks is when you come here and I run you over...lol..., just kidding, I do like my truck tho. Big fat tires and everything lol...deep purple, , and I am a fucking highway star!! :-)
I don't know about the rest of you, but this "Third Eye" thing is going a bit too far. What do we need cops and lawyers for if these things take over?
I got a speeding ticket notice four days ago for a suppposed 'offence' in November going 52 km in a 30KM zone. Ticket said even if I wasn't driving, I am liable to the tune of $338. That is about 30 mph in an 18 mph zone. The ticket was made to registered 'owner' of the car. I don't own the car, just rent it.
It was long enough ago and the location vague enough I can't go back to check signs or see how I can get out of it.
You really have to read the ticket very carefully to plead not guilty. I am going to plead not guilty and want that fucking machine accuse me in court. Being a programmer I want to see the source code to make sure it is fool proof. That ticket is going to cause them hell.
Even if it goes against me, not going to pay that ticket.
Big bro, you can fuck right off.
The only appropriate place for a speed limit on the order of a human running is in a fkn parking lot
Happened to one of my friends some years back. He was out drinking and and on the way home hit a mailbox in his Chevy truck. Damaged it beyond driving so he set out on foot to his house which was about 5 miles away. He made it down the road about 2-3 miles and was stopped by a police officer. He was asked if his name was Mr. X, which it was. They then asked if that was his truck....so he wound up getting a dui. The next day, Onstar called to ask how he liked his service in his recent accident. You live and learn.
Yea, roads are for vehicles, and getting caught.
Go commando. Stick to the sticks!
Can you imagine how many ways there will be to frame a person using these technologies especially when some software program becomes a more respected witness than a real human being?
We already went this route with ballistics and DNA testing only to find out decades later that there are tons of men in prison for rapes they didn't commit and other innocent people thrown in jail for God knows what reason, maybe the cops just had too much pressure to solve the case, the technology was flawed and then there are the frame jobs.
It's always the worst of Americans that are all for this stuff. You know, that old bitch that works in human resources that spends her whole life attempting to prove her piousness and superiority over others? That old bitch that nobody likes? There is something wrong with those fuckers and there are way too many of them these days.
Okay Tyler. If some stumbling drunk bitch rear-ends or T-bones me and tries to drive off before the cops get there---never mind some choom-happy beaner who has no business in the US in the first place---I'm quite all right about the bitch or beaner being turned in by her/his own car, if I'm too badly injured or too dead to do it myself.
Drunk bitch's right to privacy ends at my car's bumper. Sorry.
(Honestly, I'm amazed at the scarcity of "serve the Jewess right" comments. Only one so far.)
"Okay Tyler. If some stumbling drunk bitch rear-ends or T-bones me and tries to drive off before the cops get there.."
That's what guns are for, back right tire...lol
You know how slow the response times these days.
RATTED OUT by a Ford.
What a fitting ending to a society where cars were idolized and peoples' garages were bigger than houses in India.
The future :
NSA controls your car
Im Mother Russia, software writes YOU!
Me no Russian
But a huge fan
Yup, I have a 1989 Toyota Supra, a 1989 Ford F350 dually diesel, low-tech, no tattle-tale sensors, I love them and will drive them until I can no longer drive. Big Brutha will have to find some other way to watch me...
Let me give all of you a tip.......These cars systems communicate through an antenna....and finding and disconnecting that antenna, or better yet pulling the power on the transmitter box, will make them eat static........The antenna is usually some hockey puck looking thing on the roof, or the windows......If you don`t use your Onstar......Pull the plug.......
For several years I worked as a "frequency coordinator"; it's sort of a combination of electronics and land surveying for constructing microwave and satellite communications links. So I know a thing or two about how to block RF signals. If I wanted to block, or at least severely attenuate signals to and from a car-top mounted cellular antenna "thingy", here's what I'd do. (You don't believe they really let you just turn it off, right?)
(1) Make some conductive shellac based paint. (2) Mix the shellac with graphite until an ohmmeter reads (a very, very rough guess here) maybe 100 ohms at one inch. (3) carefully paint the antenna with this stuff. (Powdered silver works much better but it's pricey.) No guarantees here -- and could hypothetically toast the back-end of the transmitter.
The nice thing about shellac is that, although waterproof, it can be removed (turned to sludge) with denatured alcohol (maybe from Home Depot) if you let it soak under a rag (poisonous, injures skin if left on). You can use other things to make the surface look normal; maybe flatting powder, which is very fine silica (maybe like Chemcraft TS100) (don't breath it!). Live free and hide!
No, I have actually disconnected the antennas......Find the SMA connector on the end of the antenna coax, and screw it off the transmitter...
much to do about nothing here,
1. she opted in to be in the 911 assists feature for the car.
2. she allowed the car access to her cell phone to make calls by binding the bluetooth to the car.