eTag devices unhealthy?

[Belgian Pie]

Association founder and chairperson Chen Chiao-hwa (陳椒華) said the group had received complaints from drivers saying they tended to have headaches, sore eyes, felt tired or suffered other uncomfortable physical symptoms when driving after they applied the eTag to their vehicles.

That's funny ... people drive around with mobile phones in their car switched on constantly which is extremely unhealthy due to the electromagnetic waves emited by the phone (inside a closed steel encasing) ... and no one seems to have any complains about strange physical symptoms ...

[StuartCa]

That's how I feel after driving in Taiwan's traffic for a few hours. Hmm maybe it's the old etc machine I have. Not the loony highway driving.

[finley]

People really are daft, aren't they. This is supposed to be a technologically-advanced country, yet apparently a good fraction of the population don't realise that a passive RF tag doesn't emit anything at all.

No more weird, I suppose, than believing that your safety on the road is all down to how much ghost money you burned lately, rather than, say, whether you're fiddling with your iPhone at 60kph.

[Belgian Pie]

The eTag should only be able to receive signals from freeway toll stations — between 922.75 megahertz (MHz) and 924.24MHz — but it can actually receive signals from a broader bandwidth, Chen said.
The association’s actual experiments found that the electromagnetic radiation levels in vehicles with an eTag were about 100 to 200 microwatts per square meter higher than those without it, she said.
The electromagnetic radiation emission range of the eTag is about 15m, so anyone in the immediate vicinity of vehicles with eTags installed is exposed to their electromagnetic radiation, Chen added.

Mobile phones emitte up to 2 watt ...

I hope the guy didn't forget to turn off HIS mobile phone before messuring

While riding in a bus or MRT train, any enclosed steel vehicle you're actually in a mobile microwave device ...

[ceevee369]

Association founder and chairperson Chen Chiao-hwa (陳椒華) said the group had received complaints from drivers saying they tended to have headaches, sore eyes, felt tired or suffered other uncomfortable physical symptoms when driving after they applied the eTag to their vehicles.

I bet a lot of drivers whom complained were facing something new.

Supposed instruction:

Clean the windshield with Alcohol before placing the eTag

But it went somewhere wrong in the free land of local translations ...