Spent some time on the FAQ so it’s a light day.

Gaslighting is fairly well known in the psychopath world.  It comes from an old movie where a psychopath systemically makes a person doubt their own sanity.  Both by changing their environment and denying the changes their victim then observes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Leave it to my imagination to take it to the next level.  Here is the dream I mentioned the other night.  I was a casual friend of someone with a modern truck.  They complained that their car was running rough and was getting very poor fuel economy.  We want to their dealer and we split up before he approached the counter.  He was told to wait.

I waited patiently behind a half pane of glass out of sight.  I saw them pull my friend’s SUV in.  The mechanic didn’t even look at it.  He walked up to a computer nearby and pressed a button.  A minute after he walked away, a loud hissing sound emitted from his tires.  The mechanic had sent a message to his RFID valves and told them to open.

He came back in a few minutes and retrieved the owner.  He lied to the man and told him the problem was his tires.  The owner had failed to fill them with air!  This was the cause of both his bad driving experience and his poor fuel economy.  Of course I was outraged at this blatant lie.  I contained myself and waved my friend off when he tried to retrieve me.  I waited for a while.  Then I saw a mechanic pull the same trick on someone else!  It wasn’t just the mechanic, it was the whole shop.

In the dream I then checked the Internet.  It seems that some people where suspicious, but none had nailed it down.  It wasn’t just the shop but the whole corporation.

It’s a dream so not taking it to seriously, but thought it was worth sharing.  This is not usually technologically possible, yet.  Most RFID valve stems only report, not control, tire pressure.  But if you lack a name for it call it valving.  Valving – gas-lighting at the corporate scale.