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Sept 27, 2012 14:28:15 GMT
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Who is to say the "black box" might in fact be a dashmounted transmitter the size of a road tax disc that you display in the corner of your screen and the data downloaded every time you pass a ANPR camera ? Personally I think I will probably have stopped driving when any such scheme is implemented as at present it's all science fiction. There again when i was young we neveer heard of mobile phones, CD's, DVD's and such so nobody, not even a government minister, can predict what technology there will be in the future.
Paul H
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Sept 27, 2012 15:30:45 GMT
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Who is to say the "black box" might in fact be a dashmounted transmitter the size of a road tax disc that you display in the corner of your screen and the data downloaded every time you pass a ANPR camera ? It'll almost certainly be exactly that but I understand that the tests have shown that the data isn't always passed over because the speed varies from car to car or there's external interference from somewhere. The cameras themselves aren't enough to create a decent vehicle movement database or for real time road charging so there will need to be an NFC/RFID component to it. There's a big update programme to the PNC on hold at the moment because we're so skint but I gather that it sticks with the guts of the database from the 2007 update and that included tables for adding the unique IDs from car mounted transponders, they've been in the grand plans for ages. Obviously, there's the financial impact of us paying more to drive with this but I worry about the bad track record the government have with personal data. It's quite easy, for example, to get access to the DVLA data so insurance companies and the like having near real time access to your vehicle movement data doesn't sound like a great idea.
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Sept 30, 2012 0:13:44 GMT
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