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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / March 2008More on the Dash Express
ABC World News (with Charles Gibson) ran a piece on the Dash Express during this evening's newscast. While watching it I noticed a couple of things: Mohit Chopra, a Bay Area driver who has been testing the Dash Express for the last few months, is in clear violation of CVC 26708 - he has his Dash Express suction-cupped right to the middle of his windshield! Also, as has become all too common when the mainstream media reports on technical subjects, ABC screwed up when they described how the system works. They said the telemetry data from each car is transmitted to cell towers (which is correct), and then the aggregate traffic data is "beamed down from satellites" - WRONG! Only the Global Positioning data comes from satellites; the traffic data comes through the same GPRS link that the vehicles' telemetry data went through. So let's see a show of hands: who's going to pay $400 plus $13/month to get one of these little buggers? At least with XM NavTraffic you get to listen to satellite radio programming as part of your overall subscription. I love electronic gadgets, but I don't think I'll be picking up a Dash Express anytime soon. How about you?  Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong BTW, I found the original thread where I first proposed this idea: http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/browse_thread/thread/4d13a8af 4386d6fa/13baa76b74ca8549?hl=en&q=GPRS&lnk=ol& On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:07:00 -0700, I wrote: > Suppose there were a small device (about the size of a pack of cards) > that would mount unobtrusively in your car, continuously monitor your [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > fees being the cost of the device as well as a monthly service charge > for the wireless connectivity. > Imagine for a moment that the obvious privacy problems have been solved: > would you purchase and install such a device in your car? Why or why > not? Would you be an early adopter, or would you wait until a critical > mass of users had joined the club? Those Dash f.ckers stole my idea and never gave me any compensation! I should use the Google archives as evidence of prior art and challenge their patents! :) Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > BTW, I found the original thread where I first proposed this idea: > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > should use the Google archives as evidence of prior art and challenge > their patents! :) Gonna be tough with x-no-archive set to "on", right? E.P. > > BTW, I found the original thread where I first proposed this idea: > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Gonna be tough with x-no-archive set to "on", right? Duh. He never thunk of that. ----- - gpsman >> Those Dash f.ckers stole my idea and never gave me any compensation! I >> should use the Google archives as evidence of prior art and challenge >> their patents! :) > >Gonna be tough with x-no-archive set to "on", right? Not if I can find a news server somewhere with 4 years' worth of retention... :) Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:37:14 -0700 (PDT), Ed Pirrero > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Not if I can find a news server somewhere with 4 years' worth of > retention... :) Uh, no. Since you have your no-archive set to "on", that's the point, they don't get archived by *anyone*. >> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:37:14 -0700 (PDT), Ed Pirrero >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Uh, no. Since you have your no-archive set to "on", that's the point, >they don't get archived by *anyone*. Sounds like someone is unclear on the concept of X-no-archive. AFAIK, only DejaNews (now Google Groups) honors it. If you ever decide to try a real news provider, you'll find that all of my posts are still available, going back as far as the news server's retention policy allows. Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > BTW, I found the original thread where I first proposed this idea: > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > - Show quoted text - The Dash crooks waited until your self-imposed 6-day statute of limitations (no-archive) ran out. However, you might find evidence in a reply to one of your earlier posts if you search thoroughly. >> Those Dash f.ckers stole my idea and never gave me any compensation! I >> should use the Google archives as evidence of prior art and challenge >> their patents! :) > >The Dash crooks waited until your self-imposed 6-day statute of >limitations (no-archive) ran out. They waited a lot longer than that. I guess it took them 4 years to work out all the bugs and actually deliver a marketable product. :) Speaking of Dash, I wonder if they're going to license their technology to other navigation system manufacturers in order to help build critical mass. If every manufacturer of navigation systems who wants to implement a shared telemetry system is forced to roll their own separate, incompatible system, that weakens them all since they won't be able to share the oh-so-critical traffic data. If they make it an open system it will quickly become the de-facto standard. They make the bulk of their money from the monthly service they sell anyway, not the hardware. Here's hoping they are smart as opposed to greedy. :) Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong >Here's hoping they are smart as opposed to greedy. :) Corporate america (sic)? C'mon, Scott, you know better than that! ;) -- S&DDAM admits to putting others in danger with its beater (gramatical errors left as is): "Foot pumps are a joke. I had one once and since the piston only moves like 2 inches it took 50 pumps to raise the pressure by one psi. Go with the hand pumps where the piston moves around 15 inches. One of my tires has exposed cords and i have to pump it up every week. " --Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS, 3/6/08 Ref: http://tinyurl.com/yvrmhl Msg ID: Xns9A59DDA463296riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70
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