UK road charging via GPS (proposal not actualité)

[Jeremy Barker]

It has certainly not been scrapped.  Indeed, it is now probably more likely than
ever to go ahead.  Take a look at today's Observer story by Will Hutton: "How
Osama won Europe the space race" at
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,660896,00.html

We Europeans need to be able to say No to what the US wants.

jb


Peter Tomlinson wrote:

> 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 repealed and, instead, drivers pay by the journey, those journeys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.
> >
> >
> >
> >