Article: 45751 of sci.geo.satellite-nav From: see.my.sig@bigpond.com (Noel Bachelor) Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Where are all the interesting apps for GPS? Organization: Language Recordings Inc. (Darwin, Australia) Reply-To: Noel Bachelor Message-ID: <3d93c361.1009793771@news.bigpond.com> References: <3D91DC20.7FD91133@alphalink.com.au> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 21 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 02:47:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.134.109.155 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 1033094350 144.134.109.155 (Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:39:10 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:39:10 EST Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!intgwlon.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!newsfeeds.bigpond.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:45751 On or about Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:22:41 +0000 (UTC), Matthew Hunt allegedly wrote: > In article <3D91DC20.7FD91133@alphalink.com.au>, > Graham wrote: > > > I'm going to stick my neck out and predict that cars with GPS units and > > a complete database of roads and speedlimits will eventually speed limit > > your car and/or issue you a fine. > > Given that this doesn't happen on toll roads (where your time of entry, > exit, and distance travelled are known to the authorities), I don't expect > this to happen. It would be politcally unpopular, to say the least. One state in Australia does this for trucks. They have gantries over major highways built specially for the purpose (not a toll road). If a truck gets from one to another in too short a time, he's in trouble. Noel Bachelor noelbachelorAT(From:_domain) S 12.416980 E130.922680