more on Automobile "Black Box" Data Usage

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com>
Date: August 12, 2004 11:00:22 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Automobile "Black Box" Data Usage

Yep.  Experimental now, mandatory later.  A friend of mine told me a
couple of years ago that he was working on a GPS-based system with
time-of-day-based and location-based road charges for a European
government.

By the way, the ads GMail selected to accompany this included:

"Flashed by Speed Cameras? Make your Plate Invisible When Flashed-No
Points-Perfectly Legal"

Mary

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:50:07 -0400, David Farber <dave () farber net> 
wrote:
> Good Mary, but your fast forward to real time toll collection seems to
> be what Oregon has in mind right now. They intend to "experimentally"
> equip some cars to do that and thus reduce the gas taxes and replace
> them by milage taxes.  Lets see -- for a Hummer would I like a gas tax
> or a milage tax??
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