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>>>> They want to track it via a GPS. <<<<<<

It won’t happen with GPS. Too unwieldy.

See my #37 above.

The requirements for auto retroconvert, system infrastructure, tracking systems, personnel, staffing, taxing agency, etc. are staggering.

There really aren’t enough technical people around to build this kind of a system for the feds, and it would take a decade, minimum, if ever.

Not to mention that it would suck BILLIONS from the economy.

It’ll be odometers, and even that will be a huge logistics problem (aka “expensive resource sucking government farrago”) and cause a great deal of political downside for the Rats.

It won’t happen with GPS. Too unwieldy.

Not hardly. It would be easy. On new cars off the assembly line it would be easy to integrate it with existing electronics. Existing cars bolt on a GPS receiver and ram chip somewhere in the undercarriage with a lock-out/tag-out. Run a USB port to the dash or under the hood. Total size would be smaller than a pack of cigarettes.

In many States when you register your car they give it a quick "safety" inspection already, in my county it's emissions checks every six months. Add in plugging a netbook or handheld mobile PC into that USB port to read the mileage off the GPS.

Track when the GPS was installed, and if you don't get one installed you can't register your car so it's illegal to drive it on public roads. GPS serial number gets tagged with the car's VIN number. Further check by comparing GPS mileage with OD mileage. If they don't match or are outside small margin of error (due to GPS reception) then an exemption is filled and you get to pay more to have a replacement GPS installed.

Give me a month and I could get all that developed in prototype including interface software and database to house the information, using existing off the shelf hardware.

Later on "upgrades" could include routes traveled, travel time, stop time, average speed, stop time, engine running time....all things current GPS will do. Could easily add that to the interface software but development time would go to say six months.

Now I'm not going to do that job no matter how much they pay me, but I'm sure someone will.