On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:39:33 -0500, you wrote: >Actually, I was just thinking, you could have every car required to be >manufactured with a on-board, built in GPS. Then have that GPS tracked >from X month .... to the same registration month the next year. Then >have that file cross-referenced with the car's registration/ownership files. > >THERE ... car registration files ... with "how many miles it had traveled" >tacked on the bottom. Along with where the car went to ... which route it >took ... etc. > >No odometer reading necessary. > >Curtis
An interesting thought. I think there is a lot of argument from those concerned with individual rights that private and governmental entitities should not have the ability to track the exact whereabouts of one's vehicle or person. As to a vehicle, I would choose to make it trackable in an emergency, because it bothers me that it could be stolen at any time. Car theft is still a problem, though arguably some progress against it has been made (I use one of those brake-lock rods rather than the steering-wheel kit). As to full-time tracking of exact location, I think it would run afoul of concerns about privacy, even if the original intent was an understandable attempt to make road taxation more fair. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
