begin Donnie Barnes quotation of Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:24:19PM -0400:

Of course, we can choose to not buy those tires. At least until all tires have them.

In the TREAD Act of November 1, 2000, Congress required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a rule requiring all new motor vehicles to be equipped with a warning system to indicate to the operator when a tire is significantly underinflated. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/vrtc/ca/tpms.htm Each sensor had a unique digital identification code so that the particular tire with low pressure could be identified on the driver's display. The digital identification code also prevented signals from other vehicles' sensors from being analyzed by the TPMS. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/vrtc/ca/capubs/tpms.pdf -- Don Marti http://zgp.org/~dmarti Learn Linux and free software dmarti@zgp.org from the experts in California, USA http://freedomtechnologycenter.org/ _______________________________________________ linux-elitists http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]