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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:49 am Post subject: Assassination: Boston brakes car crash, heart attack, cancer
One of the prime control tools of these 21st Century Nazis.
They have chosen these methods for the time being since they are among the most common causes of death.
Anyone who believes - including invesigating police officers - that an assassination or political killing has taken place is less likely to question it. And anyone who does is labelled a nut job ... when nobody actually knows except perhaps the family and they are often intimidated into taking the official line.
Look out for those that label those floating assassination as a possibility as nutters or similar...
They are the Nazis!
CIA Secret Weapon Of Assassination Heart Attack Gun, Declassified 1975.Exposing The Truth@truth
The dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target.
The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes. Sounds like the perfect James Bond weapon, doesn't it? Yet this is all verifiable in Congressional testimony.
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:10 pm Post subject:
Who out there does not like Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory? Of course the NWO do have an assassination programme which targets government scientists and political activists. Like The Keiser Report THIS is one of the great TV phenomena of our age
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:50 am Post subject:
Is it possible to induce a heart attack in a person? Contrary to main stream media there is supporting documentation that came to lightduring the Church Committee hearings in 1975. The report found the CIA was in possession of a dart known to induce an immediate heart attack in its intended victim when deployed. The dart was designed to leave no marks, be completely untraceable and undetectable by modern autopsy procedures. The bullet used was a highly toxic “Ice Crystal” capable of penetrating the subject’s cloths and melting on contact leaving a deadly cocktail of toxins to penetrate the intended victim’s skin and in turn enter the blood stream ultimately inducing an immediate heart attack. The only tell tail trail would be a small welt left behind, very much like one would expect to see when they are hit when playing paint ball.
Which leads us to fate, that is was it a heart attack or something else that intervened, creating an intrusion into the events of our lives by the introduction of Andrew Breitbart death and with this fateful intervention is a common thread that toys with our minds imaginations. A tantalizing thread of contradictory circumstances by any stretch of the reasonable mind which has appeared throughout history over and over again and yet this single thread does have a common denominator as it relates to other questionable instances surrounding the demise of those connected to people in high ranking positions.
Power, a power that is capable of eliminating any perceived threat at a moment’s notice. A power that is viewed by some that brought about the deaths of John F. Kennedy and possibly that of Princess Diana. A power whose goal is to maintain its secretive overall objective by insuring its policies are never disclosed or threatened an undeniable secret power acknowledged in past letters written by prior Presidents such as George Washington.
The question then is did the information that Andrew Breitbart allegedly have, was it capable of doing what he claimed, derailing the Democratic Parties bid to maintain its position in the Whitehouse for the next four years, a tantalizing question? There is however only one way to find out the truth behind Andrew Breitbart sudden and somewhat unexplainable death and that is to find the un doctored tapes that he spoke about. However chances are as Andrew Breitbart is laid to rest so will be the question of whether the public will ever see the tapes he spoke about and that in itself should raise an eyebrow by the News media which in turn raises another question. Is the race on to discover the tapes that Andrew Breitbart had, tapes an information that in reality are worth a fortune and could possibly change history?
As to who else in recent memory has disappeared or died under similar circumstances, they are but not limited to?
Marlin Monroe died August 5, 1962 of an alleged drug overdose. Famously known for her connection to the Kennedy family.
James McDougal died on Sunday, March 8, 1998, heart attack, scheduled to testify against the Clinton administration under the Starr investigation.
Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel, Clinton's lawyer. Died in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993 alleged cause of death suicide while jogging in the park.
Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director, Died September 1992 of a massive heart attack.
Suzanne Coleman – Believed to of had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Her death was ruled as a suicide although the bullet entered through the back of the head. AT the time of her death she was pregnant.
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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:52 am Post subject: Boston Brakes
There should be a thread for 'Boston Brakes', as it seems so frequently to be suspect in suspicious car 'accidents', particularly one-car ones.
I'll repost this short post from the Danny Jowenko thread, and add part of a Veterans Today post on the same subject:
'The following two links could well explain how Danny Jowenko's car rammed a tree, in a one-car accident in a residential or industrial area of a small town, for no apparent reason (other than that he was quoted a few days before the 'accident' in a damning interview with Alan Sabrosky, where his suspicions re Building 7 got a lot of coverage!):
Yesterday, Michael Hastings, a 33-year-old reporter responsible for ending the career of renegade General Stanley McChrystal, died in a mysterious “one car accident.”
Hastings exposed General McChrystal as a “cowboy” military leader, unanswerable to civilian command, oblivious to the rules of war and a general more inclined to worry about keeping the flow of heroin from Afghanistan going than anything else.
General McChrystal along with Vice-President Cheney headed JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), the half-military, half-political group that used death squads and drug cash to fight world terrorism.
JSOC knew no borders. They still don’t. JSOC doesn’t recognize the President as Commander-in-Chief, takes no orders from the secretary of defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff. In fact, many JSOC operatives are employed by civilian contracting firms under the control of political extremists openly opposed to America’s form of government.
Thus, it isn’t hard to understand why President Obama fired General McChrystal. It is equally clear why General McChrystal or his supporters might want Michael Hastings dead.
McChrystal’s friends have the expertise, giving all that is needed, means, motive and opportunity, for an arrest. There won’t even be an investigation.
Boston brakes
Another minor issue, which should be brought up. One of the common methods used by operatives of JSOC to “neutralize” opponents is “Boston brakes.”
The staged “one car accident” is actually taught in classes to members of a number of commands, Special Forces, Navy SEALS, CIA and others. All that is needed is access to a car, someone stupid enough to drive down a lonely road or be out very late at night, and control of accident investigators and a medical examiner.
Not that long ago, an Arizona sheriff who stood his ground against the Mexican drug cartels died in a “Boston brakes” accident. It may very well have been JSOC “operatives” who arranged his death. That man was Larry Deaver.
The “JSOC boys” are mostly “conservatives” and very amenable to “private enterprise.” They are fanatic Zionists, carry bibles wherever they go and account only to “God” who, according to them, seems to love their criminal enterprises...'
As we sadly know, Diana’s car was reported to have lurched violently one direction, then another before crashing into one of the pillars in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris, August 31st 1997.But, according to explorer and former SAS Officer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes- a friend of Prince Charles, there is indeed a commonly employed assassination technique used by hired murder squads, and that it involves the use of a device which remotely controls the target vehicle’s steering and brakes – known in certain circles as the ‘Boston Brakes’, supposedly a technique of disabling a vehicle’s brakes developed in Boston.This is supported by no less than the testimony of former WWII fighter pilot, former Air Marshall of the RAF Sir Peter Horsely, also later equerry to both HM the Queen and also Prince Philip. He was a victim of such a plot himself. In 1986 on his way to a meeting, Sir Peter had only been driving his car for about a mile along the A303 (nearing Stonehenge) on the straight stretch of road the following happened, as described by Horsely in his autobiography, Sounds From Another Room.Horsley says that he was accelerating to about 60mph when his car began to react strangely. He saw a grey Volvo closing up quickly right behind him and as he was about to wave it past, “with alarming suddenness” his BMW spun sharply to the left, the brakes screeching, and then sharply to the right and back again.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Calif., San Diego, reportedly demonstrated in 2010 that, with physical access to car's electronic Engine Control Unit (ECU), a hacker could "adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input, including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on." Researchers from the University of South Carolina and Rutgers University were similarly able to demonstrate being able to remotely activate a car's low tire pressure warning light from another vehicle 120 feet away, without even having gained any physical access to the car's ECU, using just low-cost radio equipment. Some ECU's are, in fact, specifically designed to permit a remote operator to wirelessly override the car's normally electronically controlled functioning by using special cell phone transmissions.
The ECU's were first introduced in the 1970's as a means to boost fuel efficiency, but have since become integrated into virtually every aspect of a car's functioning and diagnostics, including throttle, brakes, transmission, climate control, lights, entertainment, blue tooth enabled devices and communication systems, etc. Physical access to a vehicle's ECU can be easily achieved just by plugging a laptop or other miniaturized processor into the vehicle's federally mandated On-Board Diagnostic Port (ODB-II Port) now located under the dash of virtually all modern vehicles. A hacker could then introduce malicious re-programming into the ECU to change the functioning of the various electronically controlled aspects of the vehicle.
Alternatively, if the laptop or processor that is plugged into the OBD-II Port is wirelessly connected to another laptop, then the outside operator of that remote laptop can remotely control the vehicle's electronic functioning whenever desired to override the driver's attempts to control the vehicle. Some have asserted that current design safeguards and legal requirements provide inadequate security against potential malicious hacking of automobile ECU's considering the possible catastrophic risks.
It may be noteworthy in this regard, that just a few blocks away from the ultimate crash site, Hastings' vehicle was videotaped traveling at a very high rate of speed through a red light at a major intersection without slowing down. A short time later, a witness indicated that Hastings' car also sped through a different intersection at Melrose (also appearing not to have slowed down), hitting a median and bouncing up and down a few times before apparently going out of control and swerving into another median on Highland Avenue, before then crashing into a tree.'
Motto of this story, if you've got a pretty high anti-Establishment profile, buy a Morris Minor!! _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Venezuela is a country in mourning over their late president, Hugo Chavez. "The fight goes on! Chavez lives!" shouted the mourners in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night. But even as his flag-draped coffin floats over a sea of supporters on its way to the cemetery today, “conspiracy theories” continue to spread about a CIA role in his passing.
If the tone of a piece in the New York Times on the day of Chavez’s death offers any indication, official Washington very much wanted him dead. “In Caracas, Venezuela, you could tell a summit meeting mattered to Hugo Chavez when government workers touched up the city’s rubble,” the story began. Ouch! Whatever happened to speaking only good about the dead?
So, did the CIA ‘give’ Hugo Chavez cancer? No one knows.
On the other hand, something is known on a more interesting question: “Could the CIA have given Chavez cancer?
There is good evidence, from at least three separate sources, which indicates the Agency has been taking the question of whether they could develop ways to induce cancer very seriously… for the past 50 years.
But first, a brief recap on the current situation, and the questions being asked.
"A riddle wrapped in an enigma"
Trying to make sense of what’s happening in Venezuela today is as difficult as Kremlinologists during the Cold War cobbling together who’s up and who’s down in the Kremlin based on nothing more than the top brass’ arrangement on the viewing platform during the annual May Day parade.
Today in Venezuela, conditions seem akin to those in America in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack. Until the day he died, there was a very real news blackout on Hugo Chavez’ true condition. And only the Chavista rank and file are said to believe the official story.
The time, cause, and location of Chavez's death is disputed. Where he died is a particular issue.
Chavez was faulted for seeking treatment in Cuba until the bitter end, even though Brazil’s Lula offered him the best cancer treatment center in Brazil (Sao Paulo's Syrian-Lebanese hospital).
Guillermo Cochez, a Panamanian diplomat, gave interviews to Spanish newspapers a week ago saying that Chavez was dead. His life support had been switched off four days previously, Cochez said, at the request of his daughters.
The Cuban (and Vatican?) Connection
Chavez died in Cuba on New Years’ Eve, say others, pointedly noting, in all seriousness, that the Vatican's chief embalmer was in Cuba the first week of January.
Then, on the day before Chavez died, two U.S. military attaches were expelled for allegedly trying to destabilize the nation. U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell denied charges that Washington was trying to destabilize Venezuela.
The suggestion that the United States had a hand in Chavez's illness, he said, was "absurd."
What’s not absurd, say local observers, is that, all of a sudden, a lot of money is at stake.
Chavez had been tight with the Castro’s—Fidel and Raul—for the past ten years. He entrusted them with everything from his personal security detail to running the political police, most of the country's strategic assets, and providing Cuba with an estimated yearly subsidy of $10 billion.
It is a subsidy, opposition observers suggest darkly, the Cubans will not part with willingly.
Thus setting the stage for the fierce debate currently in progress…
Amigo, there's a lot of cancer going around
Chavez’s handpicked successor, Nicolas Maduro, said the president had been "attacked" by the country's "historical enemies" and called for a scientific investigation. Maduro went so far as to call Chavez’s death an assassination, according to The Washington Post.
Chavez himself had earlier suggested several times that the U.S. might have “invented technology to spread cancer.” And he warned his allies, left-wing heads of state Evo Morales of Bolivia and Ecuador's Rafael Correa, that they could be targeted next.
He pointed out that five major leaders in South America, including himself, all got cancer around the same time. The popular former leader, of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was diagnosed with throat cancer, and Brazil's current president Dilma Rousseff has also been struck by the disease.
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has thyroid cancer. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, 60, was diagnosed with lymphoma in August 2010.
And now…it was Chavez’s turn.
No nonsense. No kidding.
Nonsense, replied several American news organizations. The best evidence the CIA wasn't involved? Logic.
"It's just not effective," Kel McClanahan, a D.C.-based national security lawyer who has studied CIA habits for years, told Foreign Policy. "While some cancers can be intentionally induced, they take years to kill you. If an intelligence agency wants you dead, it wants you dead now.”
“You can’t ‘give’ someone cancer” declared the president of the American Cancer Society Elmer Huerta, an oncologist and cancer researcher. "That's impossible. To poison someone with a toxic chemical to develop cancer would require "a very long exposure time" with constant doses.”
And South American newspapers are quoting Argentinean oncologist, Luis Romero Acuña, who concurs, calling the conspiracy theory "madness."
Not madness, doc. Madness takes its toll
No, doc. It's not "madness." I know something first-hand about the topic of cancer and the CIA, as do two authors who have written much more extensively about it than I have.
In the book "Me and Lee" Judyth Vary Baker asserts she worked for a program in the early 60’s to give Castro cancer.
A science prodigy, Judyth Vary Baker was only 19 when she was manipulated into joining an off-the-books CIA project where she met Lee Harvey Oswald, in New Orleans for the summer to pretend to be a pro-Castro activist in order to gain credibility with the Cuban government.
The project, she says, was being run by David Ferrie for Dr. Alton Ochsner, head of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. By the end of the summer, they had developed a strain of "galloping" cancer and had tested it on monkeys as well as mice. All that remained was to test it on humans.
Ed Haslam, whose father worked under Oschner at Tulane University, concurs. He used the 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher to set the stage for a gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations in his book, "Dr. Mary’s Monkey".
The book offers evidence proving that JFK assassination prosecutor Jim Garrison was right when he alleged CIA agent David Ferrie was experimenting with cancer-causing viruses for the CIA. The point was to kill Fidel Castro with cancer.
My interest in David Ferrie was because he was, always, first and foremost a pilot, who had personally recruited the most famous pilot in CIA history, Barry Seal. Seal was the focus of my book, “Barry & the boys.”
When he recruited Barry Seal, Ferrie was running a fleet of fivr DC’s out of Lakefront Airport for the CIA. The Southern Air Wing, if you like.
Ferrie died—murdered, most believe today—in 1967.
The New Orleans Station
While reading court documents from Seal's trial in 1972 for running weapons and explosives, I came across a transcript where a Seal associate who'd gone to work for the FBI was wearing a wire. In it, he boasted to an undercover US Customs agent in New York that the organization could deliver weapons anywhere in the world… with their fleet of 5 DC3's.
After Ferrie's death, CIA pilot Barry Seal had been given control of the same fleet of five DC3's that David Ferrie had been in charge of during the '60's.
From New Orleans natives, who knew Ferrie at the time, I heard stories consistent with Haslam and Baker's, that he was attempting to induce cancer in lab mice kept in cages in his clandestine laboratories.
But what made them believable was when I discovered that, of the many fringe controversies swirling around Dave Ferrie's life, the "fringe-iest" one—that Ferrie was a gifted hypnotist—was, beyond the shadow of a doubt, true.
Ferrie associate Jack Martin’s, in his first FBI interview, had been the first to suggest that Oswald had been several times hypnotized by Ferrie. Martin suggested he may have then somehow ordered Oswald to go to Dallas and kill the President.
After a long search I found and interviewed several of Ferrie’s most prominent Civil Air Patrol acolytes. I wanted to know about flying. But one of them, Eddie Shearer, who knew and worked with Dave Ferrie, brought the subject of hypnotism up himself.
"More things in heaven and earth Horatio"
Shearer gave unsolicited first-hand testimony about Ferrie's preoccupation with hypnotism, and his ability to hypnotize people, that confirmed Martin’s account.
"The hypnotism thing with Dave Ferrie was the one thing about him that bothered me the most," Sheare stated. "One time I remember, we were marching in formation—drilling—out at Lakefront Airport, getting ready to go to the CAP nationals drill competition. And this kid was twirling a ‘guidon’—a metal thing, a fleur de lis on the top of the pole with the units' colors—and it got away from him and it cut his hand up pretty good. I mean a real deep gash."
"And the kid gets up, holding his hand, and there's blood running all down his arm past his elbow, and Dave walks over to him and puts his hand out in front of the kid's face, like he's giving him a stiff-arm, and says, 'Sleep. You will feel sensation but no pain,'" Shearer continued.
"And then, while we're all waiting for an ambulance to take the kid to the hospital, the kid is bleeding all over, but he's not in pain anymore now, okay? And then Dave goes over to him again, and says to him, 'You will stop bleeding.'"
"And he did."
"Now, later, when I was in the Air Force," Shearer continued, "I learned that this is all possible, that it can be done. But it can't be done with a subject unless you've been working, hypnotically, with that subject for a pretty long period of time. You can't just walk over to someone, in other words, and tell them to stop bleeding."
"So it became clear to me that Dave Ferrie had been working hypnosis with that kid for a long time…without anyone knowing it. At least I had never heard of it before, and I spent a lot of time out there, hanging around that airport."
Biological precedent
Before returning to Chavez, it may be important to note that his death is not the first time a supposed natural death of a high-profile international politician has been the subject of controversy and speculation.
Last year the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was exhumed amid claims his death in 2004 was caused by poisoning.
Following an assassination attempt in late 2004 during his election campaign, Ukrainian President Yushchenko suffered disfigurement when he was poisoned with the most powerful dioxin, from which he is still recovering.
Most observers fingered the KGB.
And just last week the British government tried to censor information to be disclosed at a planned inquest into the death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died of radiation poisoning in London six years ago, in a suspected KGB 'hit.’
There was the poisoning by umbrella-tip of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, assassinated by the KGB in 1978 using an “umbrella gun” that shot a ricin pellet. Markov died three days later.
And, of course, there's Jack Ruby, who died of cancer in prison in 1967, and who told guards he had been injected with cancer-causing agents.
Even for his American admirers, Chavez was no saint. Although he lived in a country not know for them, he had a troubling record on protecting basic democratic freedoms. His rein also coincided with a boom in violent crime.
But Chavez did not become a U.S. bugaboo because of squeamishness in Washington about democratic norms. It was because his full-throated advocacy of socialism represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics.
Even worse, it also delivered some indisputably positive results.
So, is it "madness" to suspect something other than the hand of God in the demise of Hugo Chavez?
No one knows. But even if it's not, there's been a lot of it going around.
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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:19 pm Post subject:
Another two very 'convenient' cancer deaths: Penny Lernoux (Catholic writer, wrote several extremely powerful books exposing the atrocities being perpetrated by US-trained military and police 'graduates' of the 'School of the Americas' ('Cry of the People','People of God'), and died of cancer writing another; and our old friend, Aaron Russo. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
"It's steered by a robot"
"A Giant Leap Forward For Safety"
Unless your name is Michael Hastings?
This former Nazi company who made the Diana death-mobile is now world leader in driverless cars.
She and other reports say Hastings was driving a brand new 2013 Mercedes Benz C250
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:13 pm Post subject:
A trifle harsh on Mercedes; they requested and were refused access to the car Princess Diana was assassinated in (although the actual 'couo de grace' probably occurred in the French ambulance).
And I very much doubt they would be granted access to Hasting's car, or what was left of it). _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:23 pm Post subject:
You very much doubt eh?
Crash investigations of this maginitude almost always involve manufacturers experts
Not that they will want to tell we the public who pay their wages anything.
IMO remote control of aircraft and cars is now a frighteningly simple operation
Remember we had that thread about taking control of an airliner using an i-pad.
Did you read that?
Did you watch that?
outsider wrote:
A trifle harsh on Mercedes; they requested and were refused access to the car Princess Diana was assassinated in (although the actual 'couo de grace' probably occurred in the French ambulance).
And I very much doubt they would be granted access to Hasting's car, or what was left of it).
Audi 5000 unintended acceleration
Sales in the United States fell after a series of recalls from 1982 to 1987 of Audi 5000 models associated with reported incidents of sudden unintended acceleration linked to six deaths and 700 accidents. At the time, NHTSA was investigating 50 car models from 20 manufacturers for sudden surges of power.
A 60 Minutes report aired 23 November 1986, featuring interviews with six people who had sued Audi after reporting unintended acceleration, showing an Audi 5000 ostensibly suffering a problem when the brake pedal was pushed. Subsequent investigation revealed that 60 Minutes had engineered the failure – fitting a canister of compressed air on the passenger-side floor, linked via a hose to a hole drilled into the transmission.
Audi contended, prior to findings by outside investigators, that the problems were caused by driver error, specifically pedal misapplication. Subsequently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concluded that the majority of unintended acceleration cases, including all the ones that prompted the 60 Minutes report, were caused by driver error such as confusion of pedals. CBS did not acknowledge the test results of involved government agencies, but did acknowledge the similar results of another study.
With the series of recall campaigns, Audi made several modifications; the first adjusted the distance between the brake and accelerator pedal on automatic-transmission models. Later repairs, of 250,000 cars dating back to 1978, added a device requiring the driver to press the brake pedal before shifting out of park. A legacy of the Audi 5000 and other reported cases of sudden unintended acceleration are intricate gear stick patterns and brake interlock mechanisms to prevent inadvertent shifting into forward or reverse.
Audi's U.S. sales, which had reached 74,061 in 1985, dropped to 12,283 in 1991 and remained level for three years. – with resale values falling dramatically. Audi subsequently offered increased warranty protection and renamed the affected models – with the 5000 becoming the 100 and 200 in 1989 – and only reached the same sales levels again by model year 2000.
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:40 pm Post subject:
As a search of 'Boston Brakes' will show, and 'scienceplease 2's very good find, DARPA's admission that modern cars are virtually ALL subject to hacking:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=XayAGP6re2I&feature=player_embedded
(and yes, Dr. Kathleen Fisher IS a genuine DARPA Program Manager (her profile is on the official DARPA site)), so buy yourself a Morris Minor if you want to feel in charge of your car.
It seems to me that 700 accidents were not all 'assassination attempts', especially as they didn't cause deaths of those involved (this is an assumption: had they caused death, I believe they would not have been described as just 'accidents'):
scienceplease 2's post can be seen here:
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=21970&highlight=micha el+hastings _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:03 pm Post subject:
TonyGosling wrote:
You very much doubt eh?
Crash investigations of this maginitude almost always involve manufacturers experts
Not that they will want to tell we the public who pay their wages anything.
IMO remote control of aircraft and cars is now a frighteningly simple operation
Remember we had that thread about taking control of an airliner using an i-pad.
Did you read that?
Did you watch that?
outsider wrote:
A trifle harsh on Mercedes; they requested and were refused access to the car Princess Diana was assassinated in (although the actual 'coup de grace' probably occurred in the French ambulance).
And I very much doubt they would be granted access to Hasting's car, or what was left of it).
I somehow missed this 'reply' previously.
Mercedes were never allowed access to Princess Di's Mercedes, despite offering their expertise, and according to this latest 'Examiner' article, LAPD apparently still have custody of Miichael Hasting's Mercedes, and Mercedes are refusing to comment:
'San Diego 6 continues to receive numerous inquiries regarding the status of its investigation into the death of National Security reporter Michael Hastings. Hastings died in a single car accident in Los Angeles on June 18, 2013. Videos of the crash scene depict several explosions that resulted in a huge fireball. The 911 call transcripts obtained by San Diego 6 also confirmed multiple explosions...'
'A number of efforts to learn more details about the leased 2013 Mercedes has been met with roadblocks because LAPD Detective White has not closed the case. As a result the leased Mercedes is off limits and Mercedes spokespeople will not comment on the accident. This suggests LAPD still has possession of the car...' _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:28 pm Post subject:
Well, Mercedes 'could' make a big fuss if the police refused them access, but that could involve them in a 'head to head' with the US authorities; they would find ways to attack Mercedes, just as they do Truth Seekers re 9/11, JFK, Clinton's drug smuggling through Mena when he was Governor of Arkansas etc.
And I'm sure the top Mercedes people in the States don't want to start having 'accidents' happening to them... _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:58 pm Post subject:
Another reason to drive a Morris Minor today
Ford in process of testing vehicle system that takes control of car from driver to avoid collision
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http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15716148-ford-in-process-of- testing-vehicle-system-that-takes-control-of-car-from-driver-to-avoid- collision
A facility in Aachen, Germany, is in the process of testing a car system that will take over the control from the driver if there is a risk of accident, says a report by the BBC.
Known as the Obstacle Avoidance system, it will initially try to warn the driver to take action if a serious risk of collision is detected, and if there is no response to the request, the system will take charge of the situation itself, said Ford.
The system has been installed in one of the Focus-branded vehicles. Other carmakers and suppliers also have keen interest in the test results.
One analyst said this is a foundation for "driverless cars” of the future.
The system looks ahead 200m (650ft) by the help of three radars, ultrasonic sensors and a camera present in the vehicle.
A display screen displays a warning and sounds a chime. If deemed necessary, it applies brakes to slow down the car and swerve around the object ahead to avoid collision.
Bard Samardzich, who is the vice-president of product development at Ford's European division, said, "You're driving down the road and a pedestrian or something comes out from either side of your vehicle from your peripheral vision where you don't have a good look at it."
He added, "Obstacle Avoidance can sense that the pedestrian or that object is coming across the front of your vehicle. If it doesn't sense you responding accordingly in your vehicle by braking or manoeuvring, it will take over."
The system in action could be seen in a facility in Lommel, Belgium, earlier this week. The system is an improvement of the already-existing safety features by Ford.
Lane Keeping Alert is a feature by Ford that came installed in vehicles last year. It vibrates the wheel in case the car is out of its lane without using an indicator.
Ford's existing Active City Stop facility applies brakes if it detects in front of the vehicle an object that is stationary or traveling below the speed of 30km/h (19mph).
The latest system is being tried for speeds greater than 60 km/h (38mph).
BMW, Fiat, Daimler, Volvo and Volkswagen will share the data from the tests to create their own systems. _________________ www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org www.rethink911.org www.patriotsquestion911.com www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org www.mediafor911truth.org www.pilotsfor911truth.org www.mp911truth.org www.ae911truth.org www.rl911truth.org www.stj911.org www.v911t.org www.thisweek.org.uk www.abolishwar.org.uk www.elementary.org.uk www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149 http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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I've already got first comment in on the Inde. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
By Global Research News
Global Research, January 20, 2014
Published in 2010 by Signs of the Times, first posted on GR on June 27, 2013
by Press Core
In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack. This poison could be frozen into the shape of a dart and then fired at high speed from a pistol. The gun was capable of shooting the icy projectile with enough speed that the dart would go right through the clothes of the target and leave just a tiny red mark. Once in the body the poison would melt and be absorbed into the blood and cause a heart attack! The poison was developed to be undetectable by modern autopsy procedures.
Can you give a person cancer?
If cancer in animals can be caused by injecting them with cancer viruses and bacteria, it would certainly be possible to do the same with human beings!
In 1931, Cornelius Rhoads, a pathologist from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, purposely infects human test subjects in Puerto Rico with cancer cells; 13 of them died. Though a Puerto Rican doctor later discovers that Rhoads purposely covered up some of the details of his experiment and Rhoads himself gives a written testimony stating he believes that all Puerto Ricans should be killed, he later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Fort Detrick Maryland (origin of the HIV/AIDS virus, the Avian Flu virus and the Swine Flu / A-H1N1 virus), Utah and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
The answer to the question – Can you give a person cancer – is yes. After nearly 80 years of research and development there is now a way to simulate a real heart attack and to give a healthy person cancer. Both have been used as a means of assassination. Only a very skilled pathologist, who knew exactly what to look for at an autopsy, could distinguish an assassination induced heart attack or cancer from the real thing.
Is death by heart attack, burst aneurysm, of cerebral hemorrhage a “natural cause”? Not if government agencies have found a way to influence your heart rate, blood pressure, or vascular dilatation. Neurological research has found that the brain has specific frequencies for each voluntary movement called preparatory sets. By firing at your chest with a microwave beam containing the ELF signals given off by the heart, this organ can be put into a chaotic state, the so-called heart attack. In this way, high profile leaders of political parties who are prone to heart attacks can be killed off before they cause any trouble. Jack Ruby died of cancer a few weeks after his conviction for murder had been overruled in appeals court and he was ordered to stand trial outside of Dallas – thus allowing him to speak freely if he so desired. There was little hesitancy in Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald in order to prevent him from talking, so there is no reason to suspect that any more consideration would have been shown Jack Ruby if he had posed a threat to people in the US government who had conspired to murder the president of the United States – John F Kennedy.
Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, was assassinated for turning whistle blower over the Obama administration coverup of the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Investment banker Matt Simmons, who died suddenly, was an energy industry insider and presidential adviser whose profile soared when he wrote that Saudi Arabia is running out of oil and world production is peaking. Simmons, 67, died at his vacation home in Maine. An autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office concluded Monday that he died from accidental drowning “with heart disease as a contributing factor.”
His 2005 best-selling book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, brought him a wider audience. The book argued that Saudi Arabia vastly overstated the size of its oil reserves and that the world was on the verge of a severe oil shortage as the largest oil fields become depleted. This revelation is backed up by Iran. Iran knows the Middle East oil supply is quickly drying up and for that reason it is now focusing on building nuclear reactors. Once the oil runs out Iran will be the only country in the Middle East that will be energy self-sufficient. All of the other Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia will become Third World impoverished states.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was also assassinated. He was found dead in the detention center at The Hague tribunal. Mr Milosevic faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged central role in the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the 1990s. He also faced genocide charges over the 1992-95 Bosnia war, in which 100,000 people died.
Milosevic wrote a letter one day before his death claiming he was being poisoned to death in jail. An autopsy verified his claim as it showed that Milosevic’s body contained a drug that rendered his usual medication for high blood pressure and his heart condition ineffective, causing the heart attack that led to his death.
Former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson told reporters that he saw documents in 1992 that discussed assassinating Milosevic by means of a staged car accident, where the driver would be blinded by a flash of light and remote controlled brake failure enacted to cause the crash. This exact same technique was utilized for real in the murder of Princess Diana.
If Milosevic was murdered, who would ultimately be responsible? NATO.
Why NATO?
Because, though the ICTY (or ‘Hague Tribunal’) presents itself to the world as a UN body, NATO officials have themselves made clear, in public, that it really belongs to NATO. NATO appointed the prosecutors, and the judges who ruled out investigating any war crimes accusations against NATO. It follows that Slobodan Milosevic, who was a prisoner of the Hague Tribunal’s Scheveningen prison when he died, was a prisoner of NATO. NATO had both motive and opportunity to kill him.
In March 2002, Milosevic presented the NATO controlled Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that both the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia. This didn’t go down too well at the Pentagon and the White House, who at the time were trying to sell a war on terror and gearing up to justify invading Iraq.
During Milosevic’s trial for war crimes NATO alleged that the Serbs had committed a massacre of Albanian civilians in the Kosovo town of Racak. Evidence presented in the court showed that NATO’s claim was a hoax. This is especially embarrassing because the allegation of a massacre at Racak was the excuse that NATO used to begin bombing the Serbs on 24 March 1999 (the carpet bombing were done by the United States Air Force -authorized by then president Bill and Hillary Clinton). Then NATO claimed that the Serbs had supposedly been murdering 100,000 Albanian civilians. However, NATO’s own forensics reported that they could not find even one body of an Albanian civilian murdered by Milosevic’s forces. The failure to find any bodies eventually led to NATO’s absurd claim that the Serbs had supposedly covered up the genocide by moving the many thousands of bodies in freezer trucks deep into Serbia (while Bill Clinton was carpet bombing the place) without leaving a single trace of evidence. But the Hague tribunal showed these accusations to be entirely fraudulent as well.
Milosevic made several speeches in which he discussed how a group of shadowy internationalists had caused the chaos in the Balkans because it was the next step on the road to a “new world order.”
During a February 2000 Serbian Congressional speech, Milosevic stated,
“Small Serbia and people in it have demonstrated that resistance is possible. Applied at a broader level, it was organized primarily as a moral and political rebellion against tyranny, hegemony, monopolism, generating hatred, fear and new forms of violence and revenge against champions of freedom among nations and people, such a resistance would stop the escalation of modern time inquisition. Uranium bombs, computer manipulations, drug-addicted young assassins and bribed of blackmailed domestic thugs, promoted to the allies of the new world order, these are the instruments of inquisition which have surpassed, in their cruelty and cynicism, all previous forms of revengeful violence committed against the mankind in the past.”
Evidence linking Milosevic to genocides like Srebrenica, in which 7,000 Muslims died, was proven to be fraudulent. In fact, Srebrenica was a ‘UN safe zone’, yet just like Rwanda, UN peacekeepers deliberately withdrew and allowed the massacre to unfold, then blamed Milosevic. Milosevic’s exposure of UN involvement in the Srebrenica massacre was another reason why tribunal transcripts were heavily edited and censored by NATO, and another contributing factor for NATO to murder him while he was in their custody.NATO’s Hague Tribunal was clearly a kangaroo court whose sole purpose was to convince ordinary people all over the world that NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia was justified. Since NATO failed to show this in its own court (a total absence of evidence did make this difficult), there is indeed a powerful NATO motive to murder Milosevic – to prevent his acquittal. In this way, NATO can continue to claim that Milosevic was guilty, and nobody would begin to look into the mountain of evidence that showed that it was NATO leaders (particularly US president Bill Clinton) who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Yugoslavia.
So many people have been done in by cancer at a convenient time in history that it is now time to ask the question “who is assassinating people by giving their target cancer or inducing a massive heart attack”? Who ordered the hits and why?
Mr. Charles Senseney, a CIA weapon developer at Fort Detrick, Maryland, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September 1975 where he described an umbrella poison dart gun he had made. He said it was always used in crowds with the umbrella open, firing through the webing so it would not attract attention. Since it was silent, no one in the crowd could hear it and the assassin merely would fold up the umbrella and saunter away with the crowd.
Video footage of the assassination of John F Kennedy shows this umbrella gun being used in Dealey Plaza. Video evidence of the events of November 22, 1963 shows that the first shot fired on the fateful day had always seemed to have had a paralytic effect on Kennedy. His fists were clenched and his head, shoulders and arms seemed to stiffen. An autopsy revealed that there was a small entrance wound in his neck but no evidence of a bullet path through his neck and no bullet was ever recovered that matched that small size.
Charles Senseney testified that his Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick had received assignments from the CIA to develop exotic weaponry. One of the weapons was a hand-held dart gun that could shoot a poison dart into a guard dog to put it out of action for several hours. The dart and the poison left no trace so that examination would not reveal that the dogs had been put out of action. The CIA ordered about 50 of these weapons and used them operationally.
Senseney said that the darts could have been used to kill human beings and he could not rule out the possibility that this had been done by the CIA.A special type of poison developed for the CIA induces a heart attack and leaves no trace of any external influence unless an autopsy is conducted to check for this particular poison. The CIA revealed this poison in various accounts in the early 1970s. The CIA even revealed the weapon that fired those darts that induces a heart attack at a congressional hearing.
The dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target. The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes.
A former CIA agent disclosed that the darts were made of a frozen form of the liquid poison. She disclosed that the dart would melt within the target and would only leave a very tiny red dot at the entry point – the same type of small entrance wound that was found during the autopsy of John F Kennedy.For over 50 years assassinations have been carried out so skillfully as to leave the impression that the victims died from natural causes. Details of some of the techniques used to achieve this were brought to light in 1961 when professional KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinskiy defected to the West and revealed that he had successfully performed two such missions. In 1957 he killed Ukrainian emigré writer Lev Rebet in Munich with a poison vapor gun which left the victim dead of an apparent heart attack. In 1959, the same type of weapon was used on Ukrainian emigré leader Stepan Bandera, although Bandera’s death was never fully accepted as having been from natural causes.
Among the witnesses, important people and conspirators who might have been eliminated by induced heart attack and cancer are: Jack Rudy (died of a stroke due to an undiagnosed form of aggressive cancer, just weeks after he agreed to testify before Congress about the JFK assassination), Clay Shaw, J. Edgar Hoover, Earlene Roberts (Oswald’s land-lady), Marlyn Monroe, Slobodan Milosevic, Kenneth Lay (former CEO of ENRON – the largest political campaign contributor of George W Bush and Dick Cheney), Matt Simmons, Mark Pittman (a reporter who predicted the financial crisis and exposed Federal Reserve misdoings. Pittman fought to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny), Elizabeth Edwards (suddenly diagnosed with cancer while her husband was campaigning against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the presidency of the United States.
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Hugo Chavez openly expressed the possibility he and other Latin American Left-Wing leaders had 'contracted' cancer by nefarious means (some 5 or 6 leaders). Allan Francovich died of a 'heart attack' at Houston Airport whilst foolishly making a trip back to his native country (he was living in England); Aaron Russo 'contracted' cancer in 2001 when he started to speak out about Nick Rockefeller's foreknowledge of 9/11 eleven months before it happened.
But also, 'Me and Lee' by Judyth Vary Baker and 'Dr. Mary's Monkey' (Haslam) show the US was involved in creating a super-virulent cancer that was to be used against Castro in 1963.
And regarding Richard Tomlinson's testimony, re Milosevic assassination plan, apart from the blinding light and brake incapacitation, it was also to be done IN A TUNNEL! (though the plan was not actually carried out; like Operation Northwoods, someone obviously blocked it). _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:16 pm Post subject: Unexplained deaths
Is it possible that our Secret Services possess this assassins gun as I would have thought Robin Cook was a prime candidate for such an end. He was a seemingly fit man who died suddenly of a heart attack while out walking. His new wife had worked for MI6 and he was on MOD land when he collapsed and died. Just a few weeks prior to that he had written an article for the Observer saying that he did not believe Al Qaeda had the necessary chain of command needed to carry out 9/11
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Unexplained deaths
Pen pusher wrote:
Is it possible that our Secret Services possess this assassins gun as I would have thought Robin Cook was a prime candidate for such an end. He was a seemingly fit man who died suddenly of a heart attack while out walking. His new wife had worked for MI6 and he was on MOD land when he collapsed and died. Just a few weeks prior to that he had written an article for the Observer saying that he did not believe Al Qaeda had the necessary chain of command needed to carry out 9/11
Hi Pen Pusher,
Yes, I believe there is a thread on this forum on Robin Cook. Definitely a lot of loose ends. While I know about Cook's article a few weeks before his death, I believe he merely revealed that AQ meant "database" and was set up by the CIA. I don't remember that he doubted AQ carried out 9/11. That would be a great quote if you could find it.
The only article I know that Cook wrote on the subject can be found here:
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:11 pm Post subject: Unexplained deaths
I must admit I couldn't after such a long period of time remember the exact wording of the article written by Robin Cook shortly before his death but here is a quote from him which was probably dangerous for an important man to utter:
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.
"But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism.
"The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." - Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
On election day 2008, Mike Connell, the computer mastermind behind the numerous election frauds run by Karl Rove, was in court ordered to testify before a judge about what he knew about the case.
A few days later, he died in a plane crash.
Welcome to real American history
You might ask yourself...How the heck was this not a massive national scandal that led to the investigation of Karl Rove and everyone associated with him including George Bush Jr.
Here's a hint:
Who is good at wiring planes to fail? Who had a massive financial incentive to keep the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and everywhere else) going without distraction?
The military-industrial complex had the motivation and also has plenty of operatives who can do such things quite easily.
An NST is "national security threat." When you're on the list, it's best not to fly your private plane or go on a hike in the woods alone because of your odds of getting home in one pieces are slim. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
'Only a month ago, (former CIA director) Mike Morrell stunningly stated openly on television that he wanted to target the leadership of Russia, Iran and Assad in Syria.'
Looks like a classic 'Boston Brakes' hit, with an unwitting Patsy's car being taken over and driven into the BMW. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
I was behind the wheel when a self-driving Uber failed — here's what happens
Danielle Muoio Dec. 24, 2016, 4:37 PM 10,937
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Business Insider/Corey Protin
Uber launched its second pilot program in San Francisco last week, but the day it launched, a car ran straight through a red light.
Uber has since said the incident was due to human error, but it's not clear whether that means a person drove through the light or failed to stop the car from doing so while it was in autonomous mode. Either way, Uber knows its cars will fail from time-to-time, which is why a safety driver and engineer sit upfront while the cars autonomously drive people.
(Uber shut down the San Francisco pilot program on Wednesday after the California DMV revoked the cars' registration.)
Uber let us get behind the wheel for the launch of its pilot program in Pittsburgh in September, and we got to see firsthand what it's like when the car fails and needs a driver to take over.
Keep in mind that Uber used self-driving Volvo XC90s for the San Francisco pilot instead of the self-driving Ford Fusions in Pittsburgh. As a result, the interface we experienced is slightly different from the one in the Volvo cars.
But you can scroll down to get a basic sense of what it's like when the robot cars need help:
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First, a brief introduction to Uber's self-driving car in Pittsburgh: a Ford Fusion retrofitted with autonomous tech. The car has a massive, spinning lidar on top and 20 cameras. That doesn't even factor in the several radar and lidar modules on the side and GPS units helping the car drive safely.
First, a brief introduction to Uber's self-driving car in Pittsburgh: a Ford Fusion retrofitted with autonomous tech. The car has a massive, spinning lidar on top and 20 cameras. That doesn't even factor in the several radar and lidar modules on the side and GPS units helping the car drive safely.
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Lidar is an acronym for light-sensing radar, a remote-sensing technology that uses lasers to map out the world around the car so it can "see" obstacles.
That lidar on top is exceptionally powerful. Eric Meyhofer, the engineering lead for the self-driving-car project, says it's capable of firing 1.4 million laser points per second to build a 3D view of the car's surroundings. A camera under the giant lidar machinery transforms that black-and-white 3D view into color so it can sense things like traffic-light changes.
That lidar on top is exceptionally powerful. Eric Meyhofer, the engineering lead for the self-driving-car project, says it's capable of firing 1.4 million laser points per second to build a 3D view of the car's surroundings. A camera under the giant lidar machinery transforms that black-and-white 3D view into color so it can sense things like traffic-light changes.
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But that doesn't mean the car is ready to go out in the world all on its own. We've already heard that Uber's self-driving cars struggle with bridges because there aren't enough environmental cues for the car to figure out where it is.
But that doesn't mean the car is ready to go out in the world all on its own. We've already heard that Uber's self-driving cars struggle with bridges because there aren't enough environmental cues for the car to figure out where it is.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
You can read a bit more about that problem here.
And Uber itself has said it chose Pittsburgh because it poses so many challenges for its self-driving cars. "We have a very old city, very complex road network, real traffic problems here, [and] extreme weather here," said Raffi Krikorian, the director of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center. "So, in a lot of ways, Pittsburgh is the double black diamond of driving."
And Uber itself has said it chose Pittsburgh because it poses so many challenges for its self-driving cars.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
That's why the lucky few who are able to hail a self-driving Uber vehicle will still see a driver behind the wheel and an engineer in the passenger seat. Uber is aware there are situations in which a human may need to take over, and it has prepped accordingly.
That's why the lucky few who are able to hail a self-driving Uber vehicle will still see a driver behind the wheel and an engineer in the passenger seat. Uber is aware there are situations in which a human may need to take over, and it has prepped accordingly.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
Uber let me get behind the wheel, and the whole system was really easy to use. A button on the center console will kick the car into autonomous mode. Right next to it is a giant red "kill switch" that, when hit, lets you take control of the car again.
Uber let me get behind the wheel, and the whole system was really easy to use. A button on the center console will kick the car into autonomous mode. Right next to it is a giant red
Uber; Business Insider/Danielle Muoio
The self-driving Volvo XC90s have this same set-up.
The kill switch isn't entirely necessary, however, and Uber drivers are told it's better to take over by pressing the brake or accelerator or turning the wheel yourself. A tool bar behind the wheel will show whether the car is in manual mode, as shown by a blue circle, or if it is driving autonomously, as indicated by a green checkmark.
The kill switch isn't entirely necessary, however, and Uber drivers are told it's better to take over by pressing the brake or accelerator or turning the wheel yourself. A tool bar behind the wheel will show whether the car is in manual mode, as shown by a blue circle, or if it is driving autonomously, as indicated by a green checkmark.
Business Insider/Danielle Muoio
Being in the driver's seat was fairly nerve-wracking at first. There's something difficult about not being in control, and seeing a wheel move on its own is downright spooky when you're not used to it.
Being in the driver's seat was fairly nerve-wracking at first. There's something difficult about not being in control, and seeing a wheel move on its own is downright spooky when you're not used to it.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
But the car did perform relatively well in Pittsburgh! It accelerated just the right amount up steep hills and always had a smooth brake when approaching stopped cars. It also arguably handled left turns better than I do.
But the car did perform relatively well in Pittsburgh! It accelerated just the right amount up steep hills and always had a smooth brake when approaching stopped cars. It also arguably handled left turns better than I do.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
Still, it did have some problems. I was driving on a perfectly straight back road, pictured below, without any cars when I heard a ding indicating the car wasn't driving itself anymore. The engineer in the passenger seat wasn't sure why the car stopped driving.
Still, it did have some problems. I was driving on a perfectly straight back road, pictured below, without any cars when I heard a ding indicating the car wasn't driving itself anymore. The engineer in the passenger seat wasn't sure why the car stopped driving.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
When the car goes back into manual mode, it doesn't automatically stall but begins to slow down. That means you have to be aware the entire time you're behind the wheel in case you're sharing the road with other vehicles.
When the car goes back into manual mode, it doesn't automatically stall but begins to slow down. That means you have to be aware the entire time you're behind the wheel in case you're sharing the road with other vehicles.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
When I was riding in the backseat, the car switched into manual mode on a busy bridge. Our driver had his hands on the wheel the entire time and took over so quickly you wouldn't have known anything had happened had a noise not sounded. We were told the failure had nothing to do with being on a bridge but with how busy our surroundings were.
When I was riding in the backseat, the car switched into manual mode on a busy bridge. Our driver had his hands on the wheel the entire time and took over so quickly you wouldn't have known anything had happened had a noise not sounded. We were told the failure had nothing to do with being on a bridge but with how busy our surroundings were.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
There are also situations in which drivers are advised to take over, even if the car doesn't switch to manual mode. When I was behind the wheel and approached a car pulled over with its hazard lights on, I was instructed to handle the maneuvering to be on the safe side.
There are also situations in which drivers are advised to take over, even if the car doesn't switch to manual mode. When I was behind the wheel and approached a car pulled over with its hazard lights on, I was instructed to handle the maneuvering to be on the safe side.
Business Insider/Corey Protin
Overall, it's really easy to take back control when the car suddenly switches into manual mode. Considering how many times it happened on just my 5-mile ride, it's obvious that Uber's self-driving cars still have some kinks to work out.
Overall, it's really easy to take back control when the car suddenly switches into manual mode. Considering how many times it happened on just my 5-mile ride, it's obvious that Uber's self-driving cars still have some kinks to work out.
Business Insider/Danielle Muoio
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Michael Hastings: apparently the police/authorities illegally had Michael Hastings' body cremated, without the family's permission; and an expert assessed Hstings' car was travelling at some 35 mph. Also, an explosion was seen before the car hit the tree, and there were no brake skid marks.
Crashes of Convenience: Michael Hastings
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