State to Track Auto Movements with GPS

WorldNet Daily ^ | Posted: December 31, 2002, 1:00 a.m. Eastern | © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

[jsraggmann]

GPS does not bounce signals off of satellites. GPS is a receiver that gets a timed signal from at least three of 32 satellites for 2D(lat-long) position fix and at least four for 3D(lat-long-altitude). GPS is deadly accurate, and the potential for governmental mischief is certainly there.

[goldstategop]

People will modify the GPS spyware to defeat Big Brother's aim of bilking more money from their pockets. Or after market devices could be added or affixed to a GPS spyware that give a "false reading" of how much is actually owed the government. And who wants Big Brother spying on them in the first place? This is a shtinker of a bad proposal and should be shot down pronto til its dead, dead & dead.

[Petronski]

Oregon seems to try and be on the cutting edge but to many dumb asses running the show. IMO.

They are on the cutting edge all right...the cutting edge of socialism. I daresay that Oregon is the 'Vanguard of the Revolution.'

[goldstategop]

LOL! They ditched Hillarycare.

[Petronski]

People will modify the GPS spyware to defeat Big Brother's aim of bilking more money from their pockets

Modify it? How about this: remove it from the vehicle and attach it to a 12 volt power supply. "Honest, officer, I never left the driveway."

[goldstategop]

Shades Of 1984 in the car!!!

[Petronski]

Reminds me of Chamberlain and the Twentieth Maine atop Little Round Top: "Load up Boys, the Rebs are Comin' Again!"

Oregon's single payer manifesto...er...plebescite...er...ballot initiative will be back.

[gnarledmaw]

OOOh! Great news! and think, when every state has it then we can link it with TIA...to track terrorists...for the children...< /sarcasm >

[steve50]

Some idiot on here last week pushing a car chip to track carjackers. They seem to want to track our vehicles badly, tracking us can't be far behind.

[ezo4]

Im really getting sick of this

[thinking]

yes! just as the car rental firms, charge the customer for speeding as recored by GPS.

[Fudd]

GPS does not bounce signals off of satellites. GPS is a receiver that gets a timed signal from at least three of 32 satellites for 2D(lat-long) position fix and at least four for 3D(lat-long-altitude). GPS is deadly accurate, and the potential for governmental mischief is certainly there.
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And from the U.S. Navy comes this little ditty... "Precise Positioning Service is for the DOD only. Only Standard Positioning Service (SPS) is available to the public. With SPS, 100 meter accuracy is observed 95% of the time. The following plot shows SPS information gathered at USNA over a 6 hour period. Notice the brief 4 minute excursion over 1/2 mile at 14 knots for our fixed building!" You bet the state will want you to pay for the GPS drift, too. LINK

[11th Earl of Mar]

Owners of older cars would be allowed to take part by retrofitting them.

"Allowed to take part?"

Talk about Big Brother- Speak!

Just like they "allow" us to pay taxes, register our legal guns, and file our income tax returns?

[goldstategop]

And if I don't want to refit my car, would I be sent to the slammer?

[Publius6961]

If the citizens of Oregon don't start an immediate mass recall, or get whoever dreamed this up fired (I would do a lot worse), then they're dumber than Californians!

I didn't think it was possible.

half of california voters are dumb as rocks!

[Publius6961]

Here is a challenge...

Can Freepers identify the individual (or group of individuals) who came up with this "idea"?

We need to know.

[boris]

"If the citizens of Oregon don't start an immediate mass recall, or get whoever dreamed this up fired (I would do a lot worse), then they're dumber than Californians!"

They tried to put this into law in CA but the public outcry made them semi-retract it, no-doubt to be sneaked-in at midnight when nobody is looking. 2 cents per mile.

Fran Pavley, if I recall the name of the perp, was placed in Scientific American's "Top 100 Leaders in Science" for introducing the bill.

The CA bill did not--to my (imperfect) knowledge--contain the use of GPS receivers. I suppose the next version will, and tampering with the GPS unit will disable the vehicle and also be made a crime.

--Boris

[Mikey]

"Owners of older cars would be allowed to take part by retrofitting them."

First off nobody owns the automobiles they think they own, unless they have the MSO (Which just about nobody has). Everyone has a "CERTIFICATE OF TITLE".

"...allowed" How nice, today you'll be allowed to volunteer, tomorrow you'll be forced to volunteer..

[Mikey]

"Modify it? How about this: remove it from the vehicle and attach it to a 12 volt power supply. "Honest, officer, I never left the driveway."

How about a nice little jumper wire hooked to a toggle switch, where one can turn the thing off, cruise all over the place and when ya get within 5 miles or so from the refueling station, turn it back on. Damn one will be able to rack up a lot of credit. Plus one would be able to control the amount of surveillance.

All kidding aside, this is nothing more then;

BIG BROTHERISM

[Protagoras]

Move over Orwell