Go-box
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A Go-box is a name used for a number of electronic devices.
In Austria it is a radio transmitter used in trucks as part of the Videomaut toll collection system.
In the United States it is a device which is supposed to change traffic signals from red to green. Fire trucks have a similar device, called an Opticon, that uses an infrared beam. [1] Two residents of Miami, Florida were arrested for selling fake go-boxes online. Several hundred were sold, prices ranging from $69 to $150. In reality, the boxes contained nothing more than strobe lights.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Opticon-toting driver gets $50 fine for changing traffic light
- ^ Pfaffenberger, Bryan (2002). Computers in Your Future. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0130898155. Page 501, Chapter 9
