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[IP] more on Automobile "Black Box" Data Usage





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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 12, 2004 11:00:22 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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