IP: Big Brother hiding inside cars' airbags

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Robert Raisch" <info () raisch com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:17:20 -0400
To: "Farber@Cis. Upenn. Edu" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: IP: Big Brother hiding inside cars' airbags

Big Brother hiding inside cars’ airbags
By Cathy Mong Dayton Daily News

The car skidded sideways off Union Road on Feb. 11, went airborne for 110
feet, landed in a field and bounced "like a stone across a lake" before it
struck a utility pole, according to police. The impact ejected the driver,
who broke his neck, and a passenger, who broke his spine.

Cairo said he conservatively estimated the speed at less than 80 mph, "the
minimal speed I could work out."

An electronic device on board the Pontiac, however, told police exactly how
fast the car had been going — 124 mph in a 40 mph zone. And it enabled
Trotwood to join the growing number of police departments and insurance
companies across the country experimenting with data stored on computers,
originally designed and installed on cars and trucks to control air bags, to
determine what happened in the seconds leading up to accidents.



http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/0822car.html

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Moore was a pessimist


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