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Vehicle Overweight Preventive System

Aired January 08, 2004 - 05:57   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We bet even Elvis didn't have anything like what we're about to show you. Then again, maybe Elvis wouldn't have wanted it, either. It's a car with a special feature. Actually, it's the prototype of the vehicle overweight preventive system.
Jeanne Moos explains.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Before you head off to the drive-thru, check your fuel, check your oil, check your weight? There have been cars that fly and cars that talk.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stand back.

MOOS: But a car that throws your weight around?

(on camera): What do you think of the idea of having your car weigh you? Like you get in the car and it would tell you how much you weigh?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That sounds like a crazy idea to me.

MOOS (voice-over): But it's not crazy if you ask Russian inventor Yefim Kriger, who recently got a pattern for the...

YEFIM KRIGER, INVENTOR: Vehicle overweight preventive system, VOPS.

MOOS (on camera): VOPS.

Right now VOPS is just a prototype on the computer, but here's how it would work. Opening the car door would start the system. You sit down on sensors built into the seat.

KRIGER: From the pedal...

MOOS (on camera): Lift my legs.

KRIGER: Yes, from the pedal.

MOOS: Like this?

KRIGER: Yes. Then it will weigh you.

MOOS (voice-over): A dashboard touch screen would display your weight or the car could tell you.

(on camera): It's going to be friendly. It's not going to be look, you fat slob, you just gained, you know, 10 pounds.

KRIGER: No, no, no.

MOOS (voice-over): The microprocessor would be able to track your progress as well as offer diet and exercise advice.

(on camera): The big question is do you think people want their car to tell them how fat they are?

KRIGER: Oh, it is a good question.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, I wouldn't want that.

MOOS (on camera): No?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh god, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you're asking a fat guy that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it would encourage a lot of people to lose weight who have been procrastinating.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't imagine what would be more useless.

MOOS (voice-over): Next thing you know they'll be handing out tickets for weighing 180 in a 150 pound zone.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, Ansonia, Connecticut.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired January 8, 2004 - 05:57   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We bet even Elvis didn't have anything like what we're about to show you. Then again, maybe Elvis wouldn't have wanted it, either. It's a car with a special feature. Actually, it's the prototype of the vehicle overweight preventive system.
Jeanne Moos explains.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Before you head off to the drive-thru, check your fuel, check your oil, check your weight? There have been cars that fly and cars that talk.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stand back.

MOOS: But a car that throws your weight around?

(on camera): What do you think of the idea of having your car weigh you? Like you get in the car and it would tell you how much you weigh?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That sounds like a crazy idea to me.

MOOS (voice-over): But it's not crazy if you ask Russian inventor Yefim Kriger, who recently got a pattern for the...

YEFIM KRIGER, INVENTOR: Vehicle overweight preventive system, VOPS.

MOOS (on camera): VOPS.

Right now VOPS is just a prototype on the computer, but here's how it would work. Opening the car door would start the system. You sit down on sensors built into the seat.

KRIGER: From the pedal...

MOOS (on camera): Lift my legs.

KRIGER: Yes, from the pedal.

MOOS: Like this?

KRIGER: Yes. Then it will weigh you.

MOOS (voice-over): A dashboard touch screen would display your weight or the car could tell you.

(on camera): It's going to be friendly. It's not going to be look, you fat slob, you just gained, you know, 10 pounds.

KRIGER: No, no, no.

MOOS (voice-over): The microprocessor would be able to track your progress as well as offer diet and exercise advice.

(on camera): The big question is do you think people want their car to tell them how fat they are?

KRIGER: Oh, it is a good question.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, I wouldn't want that.

MOOS (on camera): No?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh god, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you're asking a fat guy that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it would encourage a lot of people to lose weight who have been procrastinating.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't imagine what would be more useless.

MOOS (voice-over): Next thing you know they'll be handing out tickets for weighing 180 in a 150 pound zone.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, Ansonia, Connecticut.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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