Big brother
Oh boy--when the greedy class and the Politicians/Tax and spend people get their hands on this....in a few years, sat-nav will be doing far more than simply telling drivers how to get to their destination.
This week, the first test satellite in Europe's 3.4bn-euro (£2.3bn; $4bn) Galileo satellite-navigation system blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
...Powerful applications are expected on the roads; the Galileo network would allow a vehicle's exact movements to be tracked, presenting new possibilities for road-user charging and tolling.
The precision and availability of the Galileo signal would facilitate the application of charges according to the distance travelled by a vehicle, along with other parameters.
... Galileo sat-nav could potentially form the basis for general "pay-as-you-go" road pricing proposed for the UK as a replacement for road tax and petrol duty.
Have to go back to the pony and trap.
BBC
posted by Hurler @ 4:13 pm
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