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From: vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl)
Subject: Re: Power, signal surges in home...
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kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:

>My car, unfortunately, has so much computer junk under the hood that it's
>astonishingly sensitive to RFI.  If I key a 2W HT over the engine with
>the hood open, the car loses timing due to the RF leaking into the 
>distributor pickup.  Very poor design.

There was a news article a little while ago reporting a type of car (was
it a Volvo?) was found to stall if you used a certain brand/model of cellular
phone in it.  I seem to remember the car was recalled to fix the problem.

Hmmmmm... this has possibilities:
If the police are in pursuit of a vehicle, maybe they can bombard it with
high energy RFI.  :-)

