{"id":4879,"date":"2014-10-20T13:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2014-10-20T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:02:24","slug":"us-dept-of-transportation-set-to-mandate-wireless-antennas-in-all-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4879","title":{"rendered":"US Dept of Transportation Set to \u201cMandate\u201d 5.8 GHz Wireless Antennas in all Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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http:\/\/stopsmartmeters.org\/2014\/10\/17\/peril-on-the-road-submit-comments-to-usdot-on-wireless-mandated-vehicles\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.safercar.gov\/v2v<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Not in our car!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

US Department of Transportation Set to \u201cMandate\u201d 5.8 GHz Wireless Antennas in all Cars<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of Transportation is proposing to\u00a0require<\/em>\u00a0\u201cvehicle-to-vehicle wireless communication in all light vehicles in the United States. More info including a press release below.<\/p>\n

***Comments to the Dept. of Transportation are due Oct. 20, 2014***<\/strong><\/p>\n

***That\u2019s tomorrow- Monday by 11:59pm EST***<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please make a comment even if it is a brief statement.<\/em>
\nBuilding a record of opposition is very important.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not going to make our roadways any safer if we\u2019re causing heart problems, blurry vision, or headaches<\/strong>\u00a0in drivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comments:
\nInclude in the subject line and at the top of your comments:<\/p>\n

Docket No.NHTSA\u20132014\u20130022<\/p>\n

Email, go to\u00a0http:\/\/www.regulations.gov<\/a>
\nand follow the online instructions for submitting comments.<\/p>\n

Or, go to\u00a0http:\/\/www.safercar.gov\/v2v\/resources<\/a>
\nand click the yellow button labeled \u2018\u2018Submit comments on the 2014 V2V Light Vehicle Technical Report here\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Fax: Send to 1\u2013202\u2013493\u20132251.<\/p>\n

Quote from the USDOT press release:
\n\u201cSafety is our top priority, and V2V technology represents the next great advance in saving lives,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.<\/p>\n

From a press release in February:
\n\u201cV2V technology does not involve exchanging or recording personal information or tracking vehicle movements. The information sent between vehicles does not identify those vehicles, but merely contains basic safety data. In fact, the system as contemplated contains several layers of security and privacy protection to ensure that vehicles can rely on messages sent from other vehicles and that a vehicle or group of vehicles would be identifiable through defined procedures only if there is a need to fix a safety problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is my comment to the DOT:<\/strong>
\n\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

From: Josh Hart, Director, Stop Smart Meters!<\/p>\n

I have a Masters Degree in Transportation Planning from the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, and more than four years experience working to document and reverse the community and individual health damage occurring from wireless technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

I also have personal experience with electro-sensitivity.\u00a0 In certain situations when exposed to wireless radiation from wireless devices or cell towers, I have experienced headaches, sudden nausea, heart palpitations and other symptoms. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Requiring a device- on every car in the United States- which emits microwave frequencies that can cause these kinds of symptoms in drivers- can in no way be described as a \u201csafety project.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Such a project needs to be put on hold indefinitely, in light of emerging evidence of the carcinogenicity and neurological impairment that can be caused by exposure to wireless radiation, particularly from multiple sources at once, such as with a future scenario from the car\u2019s wi-fi, personal cell phone, nearby cell tower, V2V transmitter, nearby smart meters, etc. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The effect of such radiation is cumulative.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Those drivers needing to limit the radiation in their cars- for medical reasons- should be able to do so.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Public transit should have \u201cquiet areas\u201d with no wireless use allowed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mandating a toxic \u201cpossibly carcinogenic\u201d (according to the World Health Organization) radiation emitter in everyone\u2019s car is a violation of the ADA and will be inviting mass non-participation and project failure if it is allowed to proceed without an investigation into the driver safety impacts of exposure to high frequency pulsed microwave radiation.<\/em><\/p>\n

And speaking personally,<\/em><\/p>\n

You will have to pry my cold, dead fingers from the steering wheel before I will ever let you install one of these in my car.<\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

www.safercar.gov\/v2v<\/a><\/p>\n

Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking<\/a>
\nOn page 6 are more specific instructions for submitting comments.
\nPress release<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7Read the ANPRM<\/a>
\n\u00a7Read \u201cVehicle-to-Vehicle Communications: Readiness of V2V Technology for Application<\/a>\u201d research report
\n\u00a7The ANPRM will be available at the\u00a0Regulations.gov docket<\/a>\u00a0(NHTSA-2014-0022) and members of the public will have the opportunity to comment for 60 days
\n\u00a7Go to NHTSA\u2019s\u00a0V2V Communications site<\/a>\u00a0for more information<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 http:\/\/stopsmartmeters.org\/2014\/10\/17\/peril-on-the-road-submit-comments-to-usdot-on-wireless-mandated-vehicles\/ http:\/\/www.safercar.gov\/v2v       Not in our car! US Department of Transportation Set to \u201cMandate\u201d 5.8 GHz Wireless Antennas in all Cars The Department of Transportation is proposing to\u00a0require\u00a0\u201cvehicle-to-vehicle wireless communication in all light vehicles in the United States. More info including a press release below. ***Comments to the Dept. of Transportation are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car","category-wifi","category-wireless_devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}