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  1. Re: Here it comes by dj245 · · Score: 4, Informative · on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars

    They won't even need a button. I highly doubt an automated car will proceed to pilot itself on a high speed chase, or ignore red and blue lights.

    Fbi should go back to consulting their Internet slang dictionary, rather than trying to think.

    Don't put a kill switch in my car. Kill switches will be hacked and abused. Devices will be sold and marketed to kill a car, even if they are illegal. Just like the MIRT and all the related devices. Illegal as a $7 bill but assholes still buy them.

  2. Easy peasy by kimvette · · Score: 5, Informative · on Researchers Find Easy To Exploit Bugs In Traffic Control Systems

    Easy but regulated by federal law.

    See:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
    http://www.themirt.com/
    http://boingboing.net/2006/04/...
    http://www.advancedtraffic.com...

    There are several standards in use - ~10Hz, ~12Hz, and ~15KHz

  3. Re:arduino transmitter time by JoeMerchant · · Score: 2 · on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead

    http://www.themirt.com/

    They ^^^ actually work, if you're stupid enough to use them.

  4. Great by Exmet+Paff+Daxx · · Score: 0 · on The Universal Off Button

    What a pretentious, self righteous bastard. Turning off TVs in public places is like jamming other people's cell phones and GPS navigation systems. How would you like it if someone did this in a 911 call center? Wouldn't be so funny as fifty screens worth of emergency calls all flipped off. Turning off TV's at a store which sells televisions is probably great for their business right, it's not like your meddling with their private property. So now one person in an airport can impose their viewpoint on the other 100, and we're cheering for this in a democratic nation. Hello? There's a precedent for this technology, the infrared transmitters which emulate ambulances to switch lights green. They were almost instantly made illegal for private sale.

    Here's to history.

  5. flash demo by glassesmonkey · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red

    MIRT, 3M Opticom(R), and Tomar Strobecom(R) traffic signal preemption are optically-based communications systems and the main brands of these systems.

    Clearly this is illegal (or soon will be) and stupid waste of the public's time and money to refit this lights to stop this silly company. FAC of America located out of Minn. runs websites such as TheMIRT and Guns'N Stuff The are allowing people to be resellers for $300/unit.

    There is a flash "demo" of the MIRT in action here

  6. flash demo by glassesmonkey · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red

    MIRT, 3M Opticom(R), and Tomar Strobecom(R) traffic signal preemption are optically-based communications systems and the main brands of these systems.

    Clearly this is illegal (or soon will be) and stupid waste of the public's time and money to refit this lights to stop this silly company. FAC of America located out of Minn. runs websites such as TheMIRT and Guns'N Stuff The are allowing people to be resellers for $300/unit.

    There is a flash "demo" of the MIRT in action here

  7. If you want one by Anubis333 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red

    They are on sale here

  8. Here's a link to a place that makes them... by mikeylebeau · · Score: 5, Informative · on Traffic Light Control For The Masses

    www.themirt.com has a lot of info on these devices. Even a dealer list of where to get one. Man, I'm tempted...

    -mikey