EU remote stopping of cars...
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Inevitably the system would require an aerial to transmit and receive a signal. The argument would be that GPS would need to be implemented too so the car could be confirmed as stopped and in a safe place to be immobilised, (just loaded on the front of a eurotunnel train comes to mind as a potential health and safety disaster!). They would now have your location at all times, not just while your number plates are being read by the overhead gantries as you drive up the M4 and your average speed is being monitored. Unlike the number plate the electronics could not be easily hacked. Conspiracy thoerist? No! Councils were given the ability to read personal e-mails for anti-terrorist/criminal purposes, then started using access to track unemployed claimants who were working, and no doubt they read many innocent people's e-mails in the course of their investigations. Oh, and a doesn't the UK have the most CCTV cameras per capita?? There are those who would say that if you are doing nothing wrong why care? Personally, I don't disagree until such time (as above) the technology starts being used for something it was not designed for and our already scant privacy is no more...
P.S. Imagine this technology being abused to track all speeders by way of GPS computer tracking and automated ticket issuing!
Thursday afternoon rant over...
P.S. Imagine this technology being abused to track all speeders by way of GPS computer tracking and automated ticket issuing!
Thursday afternoon rant over...
^^^ er, you do realise that all the "issues" have been thought about and already solved don't you, and that currently exactly this service is available (and has been for 4 years) in the US via the "Onstar" system already mentioned in this thread?
(The system does not just "turn off the engine" it simple ramps down a max speed limit from the cars current speed to zero over a period of time (around 1min). The system can also identify the correct car by flashing the indicators, and the On-Star system is connected by the GPRS mobile serice in real time,so the cars position, speed, and even number of occupants is known to the OnStar service assistant. They also have a "voice" channel that enables them to talk to the occupants of the car, before they "shut it down" so it is unlikely to happen "accidentally" to your car!)
(The system does not just "turn off the engine" it simple ramps down a max speed limit from the cars current speed to zero over a period of time (around 1min). The system can also identify the correct car by flashing the indicators, and the On-Star system is connected by the GPRS mobile serice in real time,so the cars position, speed, and even number of occupants is known to the OnStar service assistant. They also have a "voice" channel that enables them to talk to the occupants of the car, before they "shut it down" so it is unlikely to happen "accidentally" to your car!)
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