GPS based automobile toll system

Interesting article in The Independent newspaper regarding a GPS based
automobile toll system that is proposed for Great Britain see:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/story.jsp?story=644303

Perhaps the 90+ GBP they want for compulsory identity card could
include a transmitter? It would be an offence to let the battery go
flat.

As usual, journalists and senior UK Government members fail to
understand how the majority of systems that people are fitting to cars
actually work and believe that all road satellite navigation system can
also be used to track cars.
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Alan
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There is also a neat proposal to use the same GPS system, plus a map
database, to ensure the cars is unable to exceed the speed limit for
whatever bit of road the GPS thinks it is on at the time.

I foresee the advent of lots of spoofing boxes, which will inform said
GPS system that the car is in Germany, the speed limit is Sloth4 (120
MPH), and the toll is zero. While the driver navigates with a paper map

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GSV Three Minds in a Can schrieb:


You're out of luck, germany does already have a working GPS based toll
system ;-)

- Carsten

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