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Mossah <
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>Marcus Brigstock had an absolutely spendid rant about all the "knobs"
>who signed the anti-road-pricing petition. Well worth a listen again
>- Go to www.bbc.co.uk, radio 4, listen again.
May I interject a note of ambivalence? Whilst I am generally in favour
of road pricing, be it in the form of petrol taxes, vehicle excise duty
(or whatever its called), road tolls etc., I am absolutely against
having a GPS devise in my car giving my location, historical and in real
time, to whosoever the government decides should have access to it.
Think how it would actually work in practice. Its not beyond the wit of
man to disconnect a GPS device in an attempt to avoid paying road
charges. The government of course knows this, so to prevent this
infringement would have to set up a system of cameras, fixed and random,
to compare GPS locations vs actual sightings.
Great, so as well as being tagged by GPS, there will a huge swathe of
cameras across the UK road network monitoring us all the time. Yeh, yeh,
noting to hide nothing to fear etc., etc. Its not just a little
Orwellian, it goes beyond what even he considered possible.
So, I voted with the car lobby and if I am a "knob", so be it.
--
Bob Downie
Devotee of the wheel
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