-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] Toyota's concept car rats out speeders to the police[priv] Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 07:02:19 -0800 From: William T. O'Connor <woconnor@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> References: <4042BF97.5030804@private> You must understand that Toyota is unveiling this technology because they hope that it will be shown to be successful and then (like pollution devices) be eventually made mandatory for cars to be sold in California or enough states to require motor vehicle manufacturers to comply. Then, they would have to probably pay Toyota for the patent royalty. Just like when it was made mandatory that all cars have license plate lights attached, the new technology will be required for new cars. It is a revenue generating method that will cause everyone who exceeds the speed limit to be automatically fined. Nice world we are coming to--absolute governmental control over every aspect of societal action. The only drawback is that such systems are costly to maintain. California is experiencing the product of all these requirements mandated by its laws. It is going bankrupt because business is leaving California and its tax base is eroding. There is no one able to subsidize the bureaucracy so the solution is to tax those that stay more and more. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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