"We don't think they can be used as the only countermeasure to make sure that you don't forget your child behind in a car".
The administrator of N.H.T.S.A., David L. Strickland, said the devices were well intended, but given their limitations and inconsistencies, "at this time, they are not ready to be the sole countermeasure" to make sure that parents do not leave their children behind in a hot car.
Education, enforcement and engineering countermeasures are implemented to make road users comply with the traffic rules.
"I don't know that we're going to have these countermeasures in time to make a big dent now," says HHS's Lurie.
On Monday in New York City, North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho, who was there to attend the United Nation General Assembly, told reporters that "since the United States has declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country".
In fact, they must have assumed they were right, because the only countermeasure they took was to make sure that none of us would say anything compromising.
"So when the decision was made to make an investment into developing countermeasures," he told me, "that was essentially their matrix from the beginning: these are what we know the Soviets had.
Critics have long faulted the goal as delusional, saying that any country smart enough to make intercontinental ballistic missiles could also make simple countermeasures sure to foil any defense.
This information was used retrospectively by the improvement team to make a root cause analysis as a basis for countermeasures.
The US could send a clear message to North Korea: We felt provoked, we launched a countermeasure, but now everyone can just cool it, OK? Now North Korea has to make a split-second decision.
