The inarticulate rants of a paranoid who has looked around after the birth of his granddaughter and does not like what he sees.
I'm a divorced guy with two grown up kids. One has a child of her own so I'm a granddad. Makes me sound old which is right. We live in the NW of England and I'm a manager in a computer consultancy and tend to get involved in fixing things. I enjoy my job which seems to be unusual in this day and age even with the Dilbert type things that drive me loopy.
You might not like what you read here but it is the way I see it.
As you have probably worked out I have an opinion on everything. I'm happy to discuss any subject with anyone and it's not unknown for me to change my views with a new viewpoint or a few well thought out arguments.
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Not at all worried by this at all. It will require a huuuuuuge IT system to run it as well as dependency on satellite tracking systems. The current sat-nav systems are provided foc to sat-nav providers by the US military - probably in exchange for overflying rights. The EU is currently trying to get it's own fleet of commercial satellites in orbit for sat-nav but the providers won't play ball because they will have to pay to use the service.
Add to that our own governments propensity for making a complete balls up of any IT implementation it embarks upon, there's no way this will can work effectively. Just imagine the billing enquiries - you think British Gas are hopeless. Just wait for this road pricing thing.
I agree with the assesment but even a bastardized implementation will create all the things that make this a bad idea.
Plus, when you get your bill. Pay in X days or go to jail. There will be no real appeal or way to prove otherwise. All goverment services are pay or go to jail.
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