Re: UK road charging via GPS (proposal not actualité)

[Peter Tomlinson]

Yes, John, you missed something, but I think I have deleted it, so I will
try to remember where it came from. Probably a newspaper story.

Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Spicer, John" <john.spicer@roke.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: RE: UK road charging via GPS (proposal not actualité)


This is news to me, and presumably to the hundreds of people working on
Galileo.  As far as I know it is still alive and kicking.  There are some
hold-ups, e.g. the Transport Ministers have still to agree formally to the
system and a proposal to overlay the Galileo signal over one of the GPS
carriers is being resisted strongly by the US.

Have I missed something?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Tomlinson [mailto:pwt@iosis.co.uk]
Sent: 24 February 2002 21:18
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: Re: UK road charging via GPS (proposal not actualité)


And the European proposal for building our own GPS style system was scrapped
recently.

Peter T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Howe" <DHowe@Hawkswing.demon.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: UK road charging via GPS (proposal not actualité)


> > The notion is that the current road tax (over UKP100 per annum) is
> > repealed and, instead, drivers pay by the journey, those journeys
> > being enumerated via GPS receivers in every car and, presumably, the
> > mother and father of centralised or distributed databases.
> And just co-incidentally, the (government owned) database would have the
> movement patterns of every car in england? nice..... and very dependent
> indeed on the accuracy of the american gps network.
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