Proposal may lead to more accidents, mileage taxes and tickets for “recorded traffic violations”
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
January 1, 2014
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| Credit: Minesweeper via Wiki |
In a few weeks, federal officials may require new vehicles to have
trackable GPS “safety” devices which could be hacked to cause automobile
accidents and may even usher in mileage taxes.
With the V2V device, the GPS location for all new cars could be recorded.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is spending the
next couple of weeks mulling over its decision to install
vehicle-to-vehicle communications – known as V2V for short – into new
vehicles which would allow them to “talk” to each other through GPS data
under the guise of “accident prevention,”
according to ABC News.
However, one official involved with the government study of the
devices admitted that hackers could abuse the system to create mass
havoc on the road.
“Who has access and how do you secure the data?” David Wise of the Government Accountability Office asked.
He even said that the V2V would rely on GPS data that can be used to easily track a vehicle – and thus the occupants inside.
“Privacy is a real challenge,” Wise said.
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