{"id":143166,"date":"2015-01-27T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143166"},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:15:56","slug":"uk-government-announces-plan-remotely-control-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-government-announces-plan-remotely-control-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Announces Plan to Remotely Control Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">The UK government today announced a plan to remotely control vehicles on roads using wi-fi technology in order to reduce traffic and offset global warming, the latest manifestation of the \u2018Internet of Things\u2019 that will stir up concern amongst privacy advocates.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk\/binaries\/consultations\/iot\/statement\/IoTStatement.pdf\">report released today<\/a> by Ofcom, the government-controlled body which regulates communications in the United Kingdom, lays out a blueprint that could be realized in as soon as 10 years where cars would communicate with each other to \u201creduce congestion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The proposals are being billed by some <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/ofcom-report-on-internet-of-things-2015-1\">media outlets<\/a> as a means of solving traffic jams and taking the stress out of finding a parking space, while also serving to reduce \u201cgreenhouse gases\u201d and offset global warming.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">However, buried in the report is a detail that will horrify many libertarians and privacy advocates. The state plans to achieve this new high-tech solution by fitting sensors in all cars that would wirelessly send information to a \u201ccentral traffic control system\u201d. The control system would then react by imposing remote speed limits on each vehicle, a \u201cshockwave effect\u201d which would cause each one to brake and accelerate in unison.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In other words, in the name of reducing traffic and helping the environment, the government could at any time seize control of your vehicle against your will.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/uk-government-announces-plan-to-remotely-control-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government today announced a plan to remotely control vehicles on roads using wi-fi technology in order to reduce traffic and offset global warming, the latest manifestation of the \u2018Internet of Things\u2019 that will stir up concern amongst privacy advocates. A report released today by Ofcom, the government-controlled body which regulates communications in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}