From: David Cole (DavidCole@tk7.net)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 19:01:47 PST
I recently bought a new Ford Excursion. It says in the manual that the
computer tracks time, distance, speed, max speed, etc for some period of
time and it warns that this information could be extracted by law
enforcement officials if needed. Definite hints of Big Brother.
I wasn't too happy about that warning.
Dave
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:47:23 -0600, Joe Shannon <fordpart@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
> I once repaired a 40 HP air compressor which had a onboard computer which
> told me that it had been run for over 14 hours on three occasions the
> previous week. When I got the unit repaired and returned it to the job
> site in Hueytown Ala. I decided I was going to have some fun with this
> and asked the foreman about it and found out that it had indeed been run
> for this amount of time on these days, someone on the site had used it to
> paint a car or something. If this info had gotten back to the bosses
> every welder on the site would have probably been canned.
>
> The Cummins Celect computer on my road tractor will also record such
> information for posterity, luckily it is my truck and I don't have to
> answer to anyone else but me why I lugged it here or got to fast there.
>
>
>
> Wayne Harris wrote:
>
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-- Dave
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