From eugen@leitl.org Wed Feb 16 02:31:12 2005 From: Eugen Leitl To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:31:12 +0000 Message-ID: <20050216081127.GY1404@leitl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3901410356396407349==" --===============3901410356396407349== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/15/201217 Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-02-15 20:48:00 from the now-this-is-a-good-use-of-engineering dept. [1]HTS Member writes "California has a new excuse for more taxes. Claiming losses due to fuel-efficient cars, such as Gasoline/Electric Hybrids, California is cooking-up a new system to punish people who aren't using enough gasoline. They want to [2]tax commuters by the mile. How would this be accomplished? By requiring everyone to install a GPS device in their vehicle, and charge them their "taxes" every time they fuel-up. From the article: 'Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that.. [a] team at Oregon State University equipped a test car with a global positioning device to keep track of its mileage. Eventually, every car would need one.'" References 1. http://www.hackthissite.org/ 2. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/14/eveningnews/main674120.shtml ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] --===============3901410356396407349==--