JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for September 11, 2016
September 10, 2016
September 12, 2016
Transcript:
Sunny: How was your summer, Dexter? Dexter: Productive! I spent my summer solving big issues! we have technology. Lets use it! A remote shit -off device cab be a requirement in all cars.... This would allow police to turn off a car instead of doing a high -speed chase! and it would be a nightmare for car thieves! and thats only the beginning! I'll tell you more at recess. Dexter! you're a genius! Im exhausted. Now Im taking nine months off.
Enter.Name.Here almost 8 years ago
Decades-old idea. It fails because criminals will find a way to activate it as well to commit robberies or worse. Nothing is hack-proof.
llong65 almost 8 years ago
on star for gm has done that for police many times.
Ceeg22 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
it’s already a thing
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Recently a rash of Jeep thefts came down to hackers manipulating the computer system. A hacker will park a few feet from the Jeep and unlock the car, turn off the alarm, and can even remote-start it up so all the thief has to do is jump in and drive off.
Technology can be used for good or bad.
sueb1863 almost 8 years ago
Except for when it malfunctions and the car turns off going 70 miles an hour down a freeway.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 8 years ago
All you have to do is to make inextricably linked to the function of the car. Take it out and it won’t run without it.-Technology is neutral.
StoicLion1973 almost 8 years ago
Dexter must have slept thru the lessons on fascism.
Dani Rice almost 8 years ago
Anything can be make fool-proof. The trick is to make it d@mned fool-proof.
Carl Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Tailor made for hackers.
yggdrasil75 9 months ago
if a cop can turn off your car remotely, who else can? a random midlevel employee at the company who made the car that you annoyed somehow, and is now trying to drive you off a cliff? maybe a random sociopath working ther who can now create wrecks without any real evidence.