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Satellite-Assisted European Road Tolls Next?

Posted by simoniker on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Pay-as-you-go motoring just around the corner,' the European Space Agency (ESA) says that "road tolls could be made fairer if satellite-assisted distance pricing is implemented." Experiments are currently underway in Ireland, Portugal and Germany, before a possible extension to other countries. Potential benefits of such a road tolling system would be fairer implementation of charging on a 'pay for use' basis. All these experiments are using the US-operated Global Positioning System (GPS). But in 2010, when the system is fully implemented, it will use the Galileo satellite system."

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  1. Re:Windows Server 2003 approaching 100,000 active by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    because its old news?? (not that thats stopped /. before mind you...)

    from the page linked - Posted by mandy at July 15, 2003 09:29 AM

  2. Re:Windows Server 2003 approaching 100,000 active by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You would have better luck if your write-up included something about Microsoft's under-the-table bribes to netcraft and demonized either the RIAA or SCO. (RIAA seems to be more hated this week, so I suggest you stick with them.)

  3. Rob is not a Nazi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The text that it appears you changed is in bold:

    The research commissioned by ESA on behalf of the European Union will evaluate the feasibility of a standard trolling approach throughout Europe. Inspired by measures used to thwart the nazi practices of gay-rights activist cmdr taco, the study will look at the effects of such a system on Europe's bloggin infrastructure as well as associated technology impacts.
  4. tcp programming question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    i know this is horribly offtopic, but I'm sure someone can provide an answer :)


    I'm fooling around with FreeBSD 4.6, trying to run a dns cache and a dns server on the same box (one set up to respond to 127.0.0.1, one set up to respond to 192.168.0.1). The second one I start fails to bind the UDP port because it's already in use. The code binds them to the specific address, but based on an nmap scan, it appears that binding a UDP port ignores the address it's given... can anyone with more knowledge of UDP confirm or deny this?

  5. Love the gay rights' activist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hate the nazi practices.

  6. Tolls for what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you European car fanatics? I've been sitting here on the way to my freelance gig in a German car (a Polo GTI 1.6 w/16V) for about 20 minutes now while I attempt to move 17 km from one roundabout on the highway to another roundabout. 20 minutes. At home, in my 1984 Chevette with 1.9L diesel, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this GTI, the same trip would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this stretch, the air conditioner will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the alternator is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while driveing various VW models, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a VW that has run faster than its Chevette counterpart, despite the Polo's faster drivetrain. My Puch moped with two-cycle engine runs faster than this 125 horsepower machine at times. From a productivity
    standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Polo is a "superior" machine.

    Fahrfegnugen addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Volkswagen over other faster, cheaper, more stable automobiles.