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China Car-Tracking Scheme Could Allow Higher Fuel Prices For Gas-Guzzling Cars (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, traditionally a test-bed for nationwide infrastructure and technology schemes, 200,000 vehicles have been experimentally hooked into a real-time traffic-monitoring system based on RFID and roadside monitoring stations. China's state-owned Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASC) claims that such intense monitoring will be necessary for the driverless cars of the future, and to foil license-plate forgeries. On Monday the general manager of Chinese auto manufacturer Great Wall Motor suggested that a monitoring scheme of such scope could also be used to introduce a wide range of usage-based levies, and to easily ensure that less efficient cars could be charged more for fuel at gas stations.
Bullshit on your bullshit. Can I buy cocaine at the local gas station? Is there anywhere I can legally buy cocaine? Maybe if I'm a medical researcher but otherwise no. Congress and the supreme court regularly limit the kind of property you have. Now you'll argue that any of those statutes are unconstitutional and if you do (which you will) I'm just gonna accept you're a loon with no sense of reason. There are zero instances where someone should be able to just go buy a nuke at Wal-Mart. Now you'll claim I'm playing in exaggeration but I've heard plenty claim they should. You don't need a Patriot missile battery in your back yard, a functional tank, or crates of grenades.