[IP] more on Euro Space Agency researches knowing where every car is, at all times
From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:51:22 -0500
>>From: jamie rishaw <jamie@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> Ran across this one looking around the ESA web site.. Apparently the
...snip...
>>... information on the distance travelled by the vehicle, the class of
road travelled and the time at which the journey was made. "
Uhhh...since they're planning to use Galileo, the European
version of our Global Positioning System, the "black boxes"
won't be "reporting to satellites" nor "tracked by satellites"
but simply recording their own position. How the distance traveled
for toll computation gets from the "black box" to a billing agency
is never really discussed...
It's actually amazing that ESA's PR is so poorly versed in the
technology (Galileo) to get this wrong.
more on
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