more on Euro Space Agency researches knowing where every car is, at all times

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>

>>Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:51:22 -0500
>>From: jamie rishaw <jamie () arpa com>
>>
>>
>>  Ran across this one looking around the ESA web site.. Apparently the
 ...snip...
>>... information on the distance travelled by the vehicle, the class of 
road travelled and the time at which the journey was made. "

        Uhhh...since they're planning to use Galileo, the European
        version of our Global Positioning System, the "black boxes"
        won't be "reporting to satellites" nor "tracked by satellites"
        but simply recording their own position. How the distance traveled
        for toll computation gets from the "black box" to a billing agency
        is never really discussed...

        It's actually amazing that ESA's PR is so poorly versed in the
        technology (Galileo) to get this wrong.
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