It’s ok, MAD will take care of it.

Maybe YOU can’t remove the light.

You know that you can leave your phone at home, right?

EDIT: Also, another Defeatist reply.

Unless you’ve got some expensive whiz-bang Harley or BMW.

One side of the tire. I did not have to remove the tires from the rims, and I didn’t have to balance them.

Have you met people? Do you think that battered old Chevy is driven by someone who cares about the TPMS light? They can ignore it as effectively as the check engine light.

It certainly doesn’t require removing the tire from the rim. I removed each wheel, broke the bead on the side that has the valve stem, pried the tire back away from the rim, remove the sensor (mine had a convenient little part you can push to release them) then air the tire back up and put the wheel back on the car. Didn’t even have to re-balance them.

If we want to take steps to protect ourselves from such tracking, we cannot afford to simply say “It’s ToO hArD!!!1!” with a multi-paragraph reply that took more time to type out than it took for me to remove one sensor. Can’t do it? Learn how. Defeatist replies belong on Reddit with all the other propaganda.

1.) Lol, no I won’t. That light can be removed. Or if it’s a Ford, you can access the vehicle with Forscan and turn off that functionality.

2.) How did we ever survive before 2008? Were there disabled cars with shredded tires every 20 feet? Was it an apocalypse of failed tires? People who don’t bother to check tire pressure won’t bother for yet another warning light on their dash.

Isn’t waymo just using remote workers to drive the cars?

A local city proudly mentioned on the news that they had a system that could track TPMS sensors. Pretty much all cars after 2008 uses TPMS sensors that each broadcast a unique identifier to the car. They aren’t hard to remove, and you can buy valve stems that fit your car (0.452 hole) at any auto parts store.

EDIT: The sheer amount of replies to this post days later that basically state “This is too hard to do, and it won’t work anyway, so you are stupid to try and shouldn’t do it”, all from people who clearly have no real idea how the TPMS system on a car works, have confirmed for me that I was correct in spending a half hour removing these devices.

Could have easily been a small plane instead

Couldn’t it also cause problems for a large plane? I’m pretty sure if I shined my little green laser into the sky under the approach for a local airport I’d get a knock on the door pretty fast.

This was covered in the classes I took to get my Pt 107. Someone didn’t look at their maps.

I bet they just found some guy who had his own DJI mini-2 and decided he was the drone guy.

The whole situation is hilarious, now. The issue was, his mother also has four other children, younger than my son. None of these children are mine, I’ve never even met them. So of course the first month of No More Support, and she’s blowing my phone up demanding I keep paying because of the other children. Where are their father(s)?

It goes like this nowadays: “Hahah, I fooled these suckers into hiring me”

My little paid-for econobox saves me so much money

Someone called me a deadbeat father because I stopped paying child support… On my now-adult child.

Should we report magas for being in the wrong bathroom? Gum up their little bounty system?

Seems like the easiest way to keep from being investigated for this sort of thing is to wear a red hat.

The planes they need to fly the investigation team out are being used for… Other things.

Think of it as a first draft.