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Re: Free Tires!!! ? Maybe

To: "Joe Amo" <jkamo@rap.midco.net>, "bennevl" <bennevl@netzero.net>
Subject: Re: Free Tires!!! ? Maybe
From: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:46:58 -0800
Joe
How come your always leaking into something.
Glen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Amo" <jkamo@rap.midco.net>
To: "bennevl" <bennevl@netzero.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: Free Tires!!! ? Maybe


> damn my imbedded wheel speed sensor and temperature
> "data logging" technology has been leaked
>
>
>
> bennevl wrote:
>
> >Here is a short clip of a news article I was reading. Think about it if
you
> >ran this brand of tire you could back charge them for the time you spent
> >gathering research data for them. Amounting to free tires??? Ok its been
a
> >slow day for me. Still thinking about the piston slapping issue.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >"Tires, too, can tell on drivers. This year, Michelin began implanting
> >match-head-sized chips in tires that can be read remotely. The company
> >started using the
> >
> >chips to provide manufacturing information that could help spot failure
> >trends and to comply with a federal law requiring close tracking of tires
> >for recalls. But
> >
> >privacy activists fear that the chips, which can be loaded with a car's
> >vehicle identification number, would allow yet another form of automated
> >vehicle tracking.
> >
> >"You basically have Web browser 'cookies' in your tires," said Richard M.
> >Smith, an independent privacy researcher"





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