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About Drunk Driving Checkpoints

Speaking with the York Regional Police about drunk driving checkpoints.

To answer my own question below, “is there a bigger jerk move than drinking and driving?”  NO, there’s not.

I’ve roofed a few keys over the years; try that move if you need to shut down a situation.

Read it online at Autonet.ca

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These checkpoints can pop up anytime of day, even 7am, because if the good times bleed into 2am, five hours later you’re still smashed.

That, and that there’s no breathalyzer on the end of the flashlight. The officers are doing it all via good old fashioned pattern recognition.

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A Car Phone in 1930

Over 80 years ago, American inventor Hugo Gernsback foresaw phones in cars.

It was the 1930s, and radios were starting to be installed in cars. Gernsback wrote an article which imagined modifying them to send a signal, as well as receive one.

Read it online at Autonet.

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Not long after his article published in 1935, police departments around the country installed radios dedicated to dispatch. 

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Can your Car be Hacked?

Making the rounds in the news are stories of cars being hacked, but how difficult and probable is it?

Usually, some level of physical access is required.

Read it online at Autonet.ca.

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Yes it’s possible, just so long as the attack team includes an elite hacker, probably some level of physical access to the car, a likely a surveillance team tracking you to coordinate the attack. It’s expensive. 

Plus the last paragraph, which is the big point.

 

Blog tag = Auto Security

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What is an Enhanced Driver’s Licence?

It costs about $40, and an Enhanced Driver’s License (EDL) can be used instead of a passport when crossing the border by car.

However! It’s embedded with an RFID tag, meaning, protect it by using an RFID-shielding wallet, like this. Take this seriously, Saskatchewan abandoned EDLs because of the potential security breach.

Read it online at Autonet.

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There is one major difference between the two license that you cannot see – and that’s the addition of an embedded RFID tag. 

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