In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:48:55 -0600,
> (Brent P) wrote:
>
>>Here it comes, 100% tracking in the USA. A perfect storm of left wing and
>>right wing issues turning into the tracking and taxing of every vehicle
>>in the US of A.
>>
>>http://news.com.com/E-tracking,+comi...3-5980979.html
>
> Look at the bright side: Every vehicle would be able to report its
> location and speed in real time. Imagine how accurate the freeway
> congestion maps would be with that kind of data source!

Since everyone will be held to go greater than the speed limit, the speed
will always be aproximately zero due traffic never clearing from one set
of rush hours to the next.

>>Just another reason to keep a pre-1982 vehicle.
>
> Why 1982? My 2005 vehicle has no such device installed, nor is there
> any way one could be installed would would "disable the vehicle" if I
> were to disable or remove the tracking device.

The article describes manditory retrofits to existing vehicles. One can
make a retrofit that can prevent tampering with the device by replacing
the engine management computer. However, where a vehicle doesn't need one
to run, it's possible to just yank the thing out again without any
problems.