Re: Traffic - Signal Devices Threaten Chaos

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:13:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gsomers) wrote:

>November 5, 2003
>Traffic - Signal Devices Threaten Chaos
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- It's every motorist's fantasy to be able to make a
>red traffic light turn green without so much as easing off the
>accelerator. That naughty dream may now be coming true, with perilous
>implications.
>
>The very technology that has for years allowed fire trucks, ambulances
>and police cars to reach emergencies faster -- a remote control that
>changes traffic signals -- is now much cheaper and potentially
>accessible to civilians.
>
>No bigger than a dashtop radar detector, the device is known as a
>mobile infrared transmitter, or MIRT, and can be had for about $300.
>The possibility of its proliferation is unnerving public safety and
>transportation officials.
>

They need to outlaw gadgets like this and enforce the ban with
super-stiff penalties.