Speeding Tickets Now Coming From Outer Space

Gizmodo ^ | 22 April 2010 | Brian Barrett

[Squantos]

This has pretty much been done on toll roads for decades albeit not with gps.......just a clock stamp on a toll ticket. Ya get from point A to B too fast ya get a ticket ! Was done on the indiana and will rogers toll roads in the 60’s at least.

[justlurking]

I see that not one person has read the article yet.

This is nothing but speed cameras with their clocks synchronized by....

wait for it....

The Global Positioning System!

The GPS satellites are used only for a precise measurement of time, so that the average speed between two points can be calculated dividing the distance by the time interval that elapsed.

As a bonus, they could use the GPS positions of the two locations to measure the distance between them, but that would only be useful on a road that is straight as an arrow.

[Daffynition]

[BobL]

“Establishes the technological groundwork for taxing you per mile driven!”

Yep - but first the VAT.

This comes after...figure 10 cents per mile, increasing by 5 cents per year, until we achieve our required goal in reducing greenhouse gasses.

Change.

[Redcitizen]

Dear James...

Never visit England.

=)

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

I already pay by the mile via gasoline taxes and a tollroad that was initially promised to collect tolls for only 20 years (deadline came and went, current county judge over that resource says "I didn't make that promise, that was someone else besides" yadda yadda yadda.

But what about Those Less Fortunate whose cars don't get as good mileage as yours? That's unfair! Much better to surveille your every movement and tax you accordingly, with adjustments for exceeding your allowed carbon footprint, of course. It's for your own good, don't y'know. And the children... won't someone please think of the children?

[Slings and Arrows]

The Brits never quite got the hang of road signs.

[stevie_d_64]

SkyNet???

[a fool in paradise]

You kid but we are going to see it go to more of a paybymile system. As people move to electric cars (not just hybrids) we are faced with either raising licensing fees into thousands for a car, taxing electric bills for roads, or paying tolls.

Politicians like toll roads, they are now working to sell them to private firms (sometimes outside America even) for short term funds to balance budgets.

They are also trying to turn existing freeways into tollroads.

Don’t expect to see much new development for high occupancy traffic with no tolls to be paid.