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I am kinda glad I'm gettin old. I am so weary of constantly being spied upon for "good" reasons.
As William Pitt said, necessity is the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves.
I am kinda glad I'm gettin old. I am so weary of constantly being spied upon for "good" reasons.
I apparently failed to be sufficiently specific. It is a truck thing. We are taxed on income like everyone else. We are taxed on plates which is far more expensive than everyone else. We are taxed on fuel in a different way than everyone else, which requires more work on our parts. We are taxed per mile for every mile apportioned by state in which the mile was driven. There is nothing indirect about this, and it has nothing to do with state income tax--it is a per mile road use tax.
Watch out. It appears that they are preparing to be able to do this to everyone at any time that they may decide to do so.
I am with the "Tin-foil hat crowd"on this one...in the event of real civil unrest,travel must be restricted.Many things that are flying under the radar of the typical American are being put in place for use in a time to come....Call it far fetched if you will,but I am not in the mood to assume that my "elected officials" have my best interests in mind...
I don't like the idea of the government assuming the role of big brother who can watch me at every time. The technology is there, and although it wasn't designed to be used to spy on us, it makes it very easy for them if we don't draw the line to prevent it. For example, we have smartphones, many of which transmit location information, although they also provide the option to turn off transmission of location information.
lolz...
Who cares about the details, or accuracy? The point is that if they want to tax your mileage, they have the means, and likely the will to do so.
I am kinda glad I'm gettin old. I am so weary of constantly being spied upon for "good" reasons.
Next month, the Ministry of Traffic Safety will be dictating that every vehicle be equipped with a "black box" to record your every movement, feed information to the Federal government, and be used against you in court.
Automotive Black Boxes, Minus the Gray Area
OnStar is not mandated by the Federal Government, right? I won't buy a car that forces me to be tracked. The free market lets people buy the gadgets they want. This is no longer true when things are being mandated.
What happens when they demand that you install it on your classic car if you want to get plates? Will you start to care then?
Can't?? The Feds "can't" do a lot of things. But every day it is something new.
Just because they haven't yet doesn't mean that they won't or can't.
As if the government cares? They'd just as soon tell you that you aren't allowed to drive that car. That's how it works with emissions testing in my county. Meet their standards or you don't get plates.Pre-1996 would be a very difficult retro-fit. But I'm guessing you aren't taking into account the physical possibility of the issue. Not much of a gear head, huh?
As if the government cares? They'd just as soon tell you that you aren't allowed to drive that car. That's how it works with emissions testing in my county. Meet their standards or you don't get plates.
You can make any car compatible with emissions requirements by bolting on the right hardware. You can't suddenly make an analog vehicle digital (it's an analogy) by connecting it to a Speak-n-Spell and a record player with some wires and alligator clips just because you want to.
All a GPS needs is a power source.
were losing our rights in little pieces all the time
But, we are not talking about a GPS (a cellular modem) - we are talking about data logging. Again, read the article, not Rombone's propaganda. That requires quite a bit of sensors attached to various elements in the vehicle (throttle position, wheel speed, etc.) It's not an easy task to retrofit a vehicle.All a GPS needs is a power source.
Sure having thing like TPS, VSS, PPS, etc will help in adjudicating blame during a crash, but so would something as simple as GPS, which will give you all the data you need to construct a physical representation of what happened, including accelerations and velocities.
The only thing you wouldn't have is driver input, which can be inferred from the GPS information.