Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
All automakers have a story behind their logo, here’s some of the more colourful ones.
Read it online at Autonet (and sorry it’s so hard to see below, the newspaper didn’t print so crisp today.)
Mercedes’ 3-point star represents vehicles designed to travel by land, sea and air.
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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.
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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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.
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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You can move a car using only the clutch, and that’s Step #1. That’s the “bite point,” your new BFF.
As is the emergency brake when parking, manual cars don’t have a “park gear” like automatics.
Read in online at Autonet.
Lastly, don’t be intimidated. Europe is the opposite of North America in that the majority of cars there are manual; so there’s no way an entire continent is better than you, you got this!
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Never understood why CarGuys take so much heat for being so into cars… they’re organized and have good time management, they’re finishers with multi-faceted minds.
And even though I’m female, the term is still CarGUY.
Maybe the brightest trait, is that this is all done with an infectious enthusiasm.
Blog tag = CarGuy
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