Re: Fw: Check this out

[Eric Hegstrom <ehegstrom@domain.elided>]

Well at least it will provide a entrepreneurial incentive. I foresee a
good market for "pirate boxes" that always report clean as a whistle
even after all emission equipment has been removed.

Not that I would ever use such a thing ;)

Peace,
Eric

Tom Harais wrote:
> 
> Digesters:
> 
> Steve Larson forwarded this SEMA site to me. If any of you think that "Big
> Brother" can go too far, you owe it to yourselves to check this out. The
> State of California is proposing to put 'OBD's or 'on board detectors' on
> cars that will notify the Air Resources Board anytime your exhaust isn't
> meeting standards. They in turn, want a program that will notify you to
> bring your car in for repairs within 10 days, or they'll sic the CHP on
> you.
> 
> This is for real. And, as you folks in NJ, MO and NY already know, as
> California goes on things environmental, the rest of the nation will soon
> follow. (We no longer have "california" and "49 state" cars do we?)
> 
> Scary, really scary.
> 
> Tom H.
> ----------
> From: SLarsonIH@domain.elided
> To: tjhemh@domain.elided
> Subject: Check this out
> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 3:41 PM
> 
> Tom,
> 
> Check this out. It's about OBD III. Very interesting to say the least.
> 
> http://www.sema.org/faq/obdIII.html
> 
> STeve

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