Every Road a Toll Road

Great Britain is looking at a couple of different proposals for "universal road pricing", making every public road a toll road via GPS and black boxes in vehicles. There are also articles by the main proponent of universal tolls, and an editorial from the paper suggesting higher gas taxes instead.

Comments

Re:What about the poor?

[Squareball]

Let me get this straight... You want the government to put a gun to my head and take money from ME that I worked hard to earn, and give it to a poor person so that they can ride mass transit? Huh? Sorry, the poor are poor because of the choices they make. They drop out of school, they abuse drugs, they abuse alcohol, they have kids when they can't afford it. Sorry, it's not my problem! It's their fault not mine. I work hard for my money and don't think that we should use the police power of the government to force me to pay for these people. If they wanna eat.. get a job, and don't have kids! Don't plunder my wallett for your food stamps so that you can buy frozen pizza and soda! If you want transportation, ride a bike! I rode a bike for a year until I could afford a car.

Civil war

[richmultijoy]

I'm game- lets overthrow this bl**dy excuse for a government...
Any of our friends over the pond got a spare weapon or three?

GPS tracking? Too sweet.

[pinkpineapple]

For those of you who live in a totalitarian country that is able to articulate such idiotic taxe policies, here is the scoop:

It's very easy to block a GPS signal and render the whole tracking system unoperational. I work on something similar as a project recently, and things got very complicated when we had to take the shielding of metallic objects in account. So all I am saying is that their stuff: it's not for tomorrow

For details on GPS and tracking, check the latest Dr Dobbs journal. There is a programmer centric view on the system.

PPA, the girl next door.