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Signal From NPR Station Bricks Car Entertainment Systems
You know how in North Korea, all the radios can only receive one station and it’s the Government’s propaganda station? Mazda drivers in Seattle can relate.
Some Mazda owners in the Seattle area are stuck with bricked infotainment systems after listening to a particular radio station.
According to the Seattle Times, the problem began on January 30 and afflicted Mazdas from model years 2014 to 2017 when the cars were tuned to the local NPR station, KUOW 94.9. At some point during the day’s broadcast, a signal from KUOW caused the Mazdas’ infotainment systems to crash—the screens died and the radios were stuck on 94.9 FM.
This could be the beginning of one of the weaker X-Files episodes. A man is driving through Tacoma on a rainy night, listening to Fresh Air with Terry Gross, when suddenly his car is zapped and the only thing he can listen to is Fresh Air with Terry Gross. As she drones on and on, asking her guest, “What was the inspiration for your research into white people’s use of the thumbs up emoji,” the driver frantically tries to change stations, but it keeps looping back to NPR. He grows increasingly distraught and begins bleeding from his ears. Finally, he loses control on a rain-slicked highway and crashes into a tree. The camera pans over his corpse as the radio intones, “This is NPR.”
Cue theme music….
This is but one of many reasons I’m not enthusiastic about the prospect of self-driving cars; or the Kill Switch Technology that will be embedded into future automobiles via the “Infrastructure” Bill that 32 Republicans voted for.
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Several high end cars can already be bricked.
This is very funny. I like that.
Never heard of this. Can you give some details?
I can’t do that, Dave.
This is the voice of World Control.
You have nothing to fear.
Nothing can go wrong.
*click*
Go wrong.
*click*
Go wrong.
*click*
…
Why the repo man can remotely shut off your car engine:
And:
Pretty much just a mini-EMP, not really new.
OUCH!
Or an installed device, either one.
No, but I’ve always dreamed of having one.
It was always the antenna that stopped me. A dish large enough is too noticeable. You have to use a phased array of some kind if you want to hide it behind the grille. That’s too expensive to build, even a waveguide one like the SPS-48. Without an antenna, the energy requirement is too much.
I’ve always wanted a soundlazer, but they’re so big they mount on a pick-up bed.
Name and end their careers:
19 Senators:
Establishment Republican Representatives whose votes gave Pelosi the win, after 6 Democrats voted NO:
Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska
Don Young of Alaska
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Fred Upton of Michigan
Jeff Van Drew and Chris Smith of New Jersey
Nicole Malliotakis, Andrew Garbarino, John Katko, and Tom Reed of New York
Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
David McKinley of West Virginia
In the meantime, How about this?
Tesla can tell a car not to work.
I have read of high end security systems locking down cars in parking garages and they cannot get them unlocked because no cell signal.
Any car that accesses the internet to update its control systems can be bricked.
And a Tesla was hacked to be driven via remote control.
Kinzinger is gone. Gonzalez is gone. I think the NY gerrymander will eliminate all of those Republicans. New Jersey gerrymandered two Republican seats into oblivion, but I don’t know if they are the same.
Once again, yesterday’s dystopian SF nightmare is today’s lived reality. Enjoy. Not.
Anyone here know the actual location in the infrastructure bill where this provision is?
Yes.
Text – S.1331 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): RIDE Act of 2021 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Thanks, I got it from Skip over on Facinbooks…
Hold the phone. Barr’s article says this is “buried deep within the infrastructure bill”, but you’ve linked instead to a bill that has only been introduced…
It’s Section 24220 of the infrastructure legislation. I have no idea whether Barr has accurately described it.
You are correct about the Ride Act not being passed.
Yes, I found it. Thanks!
Pure nonsense…