More on Toyota's concept car ratting out speeders to cops [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Re: [Politech] Toyota's concept car rats out speeders to the police[priv]
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 07:02:19 -0800
From: William T. O'Connor <woconnor () inreach com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
References: <4042BF97.5030804 () well com>

You must understand that Toyota is unveiling this technology because they
hope that it will be shown to be successful and then (like pollution
devices) be eventually made mandatory for cars to be sold in California or
enough states to require motor vehicle manufacturers to comply.  Then, they
would have to probably pay Toyota for the patent royalty.  Just like when it
was made mandatory that all cars have license plate lights attached, the new
technology will be required for new cars.  It is a revenue generating method
that will cause everyone who exceeds the speed limit to be automatically
fined.  Nice world we are coming to--absolute governmental control over
every aspect of societal action.  The only drawback is that such systems are
costly to maintain.  California is experiencing the product of all these
requirements mandated by its laws.  It is going bankrupt because business is
leaving California and its tax base is eroding.  There is no one able to
subsidize the bureaucracy so the solution is to tax those that stay more and
more.
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