New Radar Gun to Catch Texting Drivers

[green73]

A Virginia company is developing a radar gunlike device that would help police catch drivers as they text.

The technology works by detecting the telltale radio frequencies that emit from a vehicle when someone inside is using a cellphone, said Malcolm McIntyre of ComSonics. Cable repairmen use similar means to find where a cable is damaged - from a rodent, for instance - by looking for frequencies leaking in a transmission, McIntyre said.

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http://hamptonroads.com/2014/09/new-device-works-catch-texting-drivers

[alucard13mm]

Frankly, I don't give a shit if people text and drive and get themselves killed. But it is bad if they get other, innocent drivers killed. Back in my younger days, I did text while driving sometimes. And there were some close calls.

[Jeremy]

It's a horrible idea that will never work.


Apps can use SMS without a user
Text messages can be sent via data and not SMS through services like iMessage
The driver can just hide their phone and deny it
It could have been a passenger texting anyway

[Zippyjuan]

Would a car GPS or satallite radio emit similar signals? What about static or signals from electronic controls for the engine?

[luctor-et-emergo]

It's a horrible idea that will never work.


Apps can use SMS without a user
Text messages can be sent via data and not SMS through services like iMessage
The driver can just hide their phone and deny it
It could have been a passenger texting anyway


#4 is what absolutely kills this.

[mad cow]

#4 is what absolutely kills this.

Yeah,but it would give them one more reason to pull you over and then it's Katey bar the door.

[presence]

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

[specsaregood]

It's a horrible idea that will never work.


Apps can use SMS without a user
Text messages can be sent via data and not SMS through services like iMessage
The driver can just hide their phone and deny it
It could have been a passenger texting anyway


Not to mention that new cars can Text hands free.

[Anti Federalist]

Would a car GPS or satallite radio emit similar signals?

These are passive receivers and not emitters of RF energy.


What about static or signals from electronic controls for the engine?

Doubtful.

Way different signal strength and frequency.

[tod evans]

Back in my younger days, I did text while driving sometimes.

Back in my "younger days" phones had rotary dial and curly cords...:o

[presence]

Back in my "younger days" phones had rotary dial and curly cords...:o

I had one of those up until 5 years ago when it finally died. I miss it. Might have to get another off ebay.

[Anti Federalist]

Back in my "younger days" phones had rotary dial and curly cords...:o

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[DamianTV]

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ROFL

Heh, Im half suprised there arent any laws prohibiting Morse Code and Driving...

[mad cow]

Back in my younger days with a day off I sat all day in an employed girlfriends newly acquired apartment waiting for some overpaid technician from Ma Bell,the only way you could get a phone at the time it being a monopoly and all,hooked up the black rotary phone with the curly cord to the pre-existing wall outlet.

I am happy to report that all went well and he wasn't electrocuted.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.I'll take my iPhone 5.

[Anti Federalist]

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.I'll take my iPhone 5.

Knowing that everything you say within earshot of it can and is monitored?

Knowing that it is tracking your location, in real time?

Is the convienence of being able to have the wife call and pester you to bring home eggs and milk and the ability to laugh at funny cat pictures, worth all that?

(And yes, I am fully aware of using technology to decry technology, so don't bother pointing that out.)

I would happily take a 50 year leap backward in technology to be rid of all this nonsense.

[Anti Federalist]

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.I'll take my iPhone 5.

Knowing that everything you say within earshot of it can and is monitored?

Knowing that it is tracking your location, in real time?

Is the convienence of being able to have the wife call and pester you to bring home eggs and milk and the ability to laugh at funny cat pictures, worth all that?

(And yes, I am fully aware of using technology to decry technology, so don't bother pointing that out.)

I would happily take a 50 year leap backward in technology to be rid of all this nonsense.

[mad cow]

Do you think that in 2014 everything you say into that black rotary dial phone with the curly cord can't be monitored?

[HOLLYWOOD]

3,2,1,...

New Android/iOS apps to spew texts when detecting fast movement rates via GPS coordinates... aka ECM Electronic Counter Measures aka Electronic Chaff

[Anti Federalist]

Do you think that in 2014 everything you say into that black rotary dial phone with the curly cord can't be monitored?

Of course it can, it's going into the network.

But it can't track me sitting on my desk.

[mad cow]

Of course it can, it's going into the network.

But it can't track me sitting on my desk.

But your ancient cell phone can by triangulation,close enough for Government work.

I have owned my iPhone 5 since 5/08/2013 and it tells me I have used 155 minutes of phone time since then.The vast majority of this is calls I never answered.I have also received 22 text messages since then,95% from Verizon,and have sent zero.

I don't have a wife and have never looked at a cat picture on my phone,funny or otherwise.
I do have ~50 apps on it that I use for bird-watching,star-gazing,shopping lists,finding and getting directions to anyplace,anytime,anywhere with turn by turn spoken directions and traffic updates and on and on and on.

Siri is nice and useful,no typing necessary,same with all my shopping lists,I just say 'beer' 'cigs' 'junk food' and it is magically on the list.
Dictionary,thesaurus,hell the entire internet is just a voice-prompt away.

And if I ever don't want it to track me in my travels,all I gotta do is put it in a cookie tin.

Then it can't track me in my truck.

[VIDEODROME]

What if your phone is merely Receiving a Text? Might it send a reply acknowledgement triggering this signal?

[fr33]

#4 is what absolutely kills this.

Nope. It's illegal in my state for a passenger to have an open container of alcohol. The same reasoning for that law will be used to enforce this.

[Philhelm]

#4 is what absolutely kills this.

They'd just make an equivalent "open container" law, or some such bullshit.

[Danke]

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[RonPaulFanInGA]

Back in my "younger days" phones had rotary dial and curly cords...:o

Was one of the very first to have a car phone. That was such a huge thing. Remember calling a friend from his driveway, and telling him I was parked outside his house after he asked where I was, and it just freaked him the hell out.

[CPUd]

Knowing that everything you say within earshot of it can and is monitored?

Knowing that it is tracking your location, in real time?

Is the convienence of being able to have the wife call and pester you to bring home eggs and milk and the ability to laugh at funny cat pictures, worth all that?

(And yes, I am fully aware of using technology to decry technology, so don't bother pointing that out.)

I would happily take a 50 year leap backward in technology to be rid of all this nonsense.

You need to get those Faraday bags to market.

[libertyjam]

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[Origanalist]

Back in my "younger days" phones had rotary dial and curly cords...:o

"Party line."

[Root]

Well my phone is always receiving (and I guess transmitting) data when I'm driving. I use Spotify as my source of music. As soon as I get in the car, I plug in the usb cable to the phone and start streaming. How does this thing determine the difference between music and text data???

[69360]

Knowing that everything you say within earshot of it can and is monitored?

Knowing that it is tracking your location, in real time?

Is the convienence of being able to have the wife call and pester you to bring home eggs and milk and the ability to laugh at funny cat pictures, worth all that?

(And yes, I am fully aware of using technology to decry technology, so don't bother pointing that out.)

I would happily take a 50 year leap backward in technology to be rid of all this nonsense.

Same here. I only have a cell phone because it's cheaper than a land line. I rarely use it. It's just a boring $10 prepaid, not an iphone 25 or whatever.

Texting while driving was legal here until last year. I've done it, it's no big deal, hold the phone above the steering wheel so you aren't looking down.

[tod evans]

Well my phone is always receiving (and I guess transmitting) data when I'm driving. I use Spotify as my source of music. As soon as I get in the car, I plug in the usb cable to the phone and start streaming. How does this thing determine the difference between music and text data???

It doesn't need to when the objective is generating revenue..

[trey4sports]

I text when driving. I only do so when I feel comfortable though. Never in a situation when I have to really alter my focus or jeopardize my safety.