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0 pointsceejayoz7y ago0 comments

I'd expect they prevent starting the car, rather than shutting off in the middle of the highway.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/car_lenders_u...

> "We can disable the ignition but not while you're driving," Melanie Boudreau, a spokesperson at IMETRIK, a Canadian maker of starter interrupt devices that run around $100 each, told Fortune. "We don't want to kill you."

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Bluestrike27y ago

That's slightly better I guess (though at driver in the article claimed otherwise), but the driver is still under the expectation that their vehicle will start when they turn the key. What happens when the car won't turn on in an emergency?

jpatokal7y ago

Is that any different from the car not being there because it's been repossessed?

bouke7y ago

Or you shut it off at a train crossing by accident, a trains is oncoming and you cannot get the car started again? With all your children in the back seats and no time to get them all out?

im3w1l7y ago

It may obstruct something by remaining standing when the driver wanted to just make a quick stop.

X-Istence7y ago

You stall in the middle of the highway and need to get it going again?

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