On Wednesday, 5 January 2000 Jordan wrote
Subject: No More Speeding in the UK?
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>Can't vouch for anything in the article but I hope it doesn't catch on here
>in the states.
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We saw a program on the TV news tonight and it explained this system and how
it operates. A satellite communicates with a computer in your vehicle and
places the car on a grid map { within 1 meter accuracy } of all the roads in
the UK. Because the speed limits on all roads in the UK are known to the
satellite it reads the speed at which the car is travelling and if y'all are
speeding the satellite reduces the fuel flow to the engine, slowing you down
to the posted speed for that stretch of road. This is projected to be an
operational system within ten years. If they told us the truth on the TV
that is.
Big Bro' is watching over you!!!
The claim is it will reduce road deaths by two thousand people each year.
YMMV.
L8R,
Scotty,
Adelaide,Australia.
Who has exceeded the posted speed limit a time or two, chasing Eric in
primrose down the road, for no good reason at all. 8^) Except it was fun!
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