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vehicular wire
government leases your car as another pair of eyes on the road | |
A hardware solution that contains a camera, computer, cellphone modem and radar gun that can be bolt to any private individual's car. The owner is subject to vetting.
Probably the equivalent of a high processing cellular phone with speed radar capabilities.
The private individual would get a monthly
payment for the use of their vehicular space. The traffic law enforcement authority would have mobile speed cameras checking areas the thinly populated officers could not cover.
If the software was sophisticated enough bad driving habits could also be caught on camera and uploaded.
If caught in a crash, the data recorded would be a good source of facts.
Driving habits of the population would slowly change because you are not quite sure whether your fellow travellers are automatically dobbing you in. Of course the hardware carriers would have to watch the bad practises and get angry while taking avoidance measures.
The Big Brother Award
http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/
[MikeD, Jun 04 2010]
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I dunno about this. I suspect we'd turn into a bunch
of vigilantes. |
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I reserve the right to speed when there are no cops around. And I'm 1/2 kidding. |
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Overbearing, unnecessary, complicated, expensive, not very usefull. [-] |
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Possibly the unit could be used as a mobile data sampling node on traffic counts, road usage and weather conditions. |
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down with big brother! [-] |
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Possibly the unit could record good driving behaviour so Big Brother's higher order of wisdom can be used to hand out rewards. |
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Those 'you have won' letters could be true, admittedly at a smaller amount. |
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