German town goes car-free

[dragonfire]

wow, what a big brother paranoiy, do you all have frequency-blocking purses for the new passports with integrated rfid-chip, too ?

I'm not sure which part of the "big brother" discussion you are referring to, but consider ...

Fines fraud hits Italian drivers
Italy police raid speed camera company
International Speed Camera Warnings

the part with paying 1000$ for having some tracking systems removed while a simple gps-blocker or removal of the i/o port to the sky-"hook" would have served the purpose just as well-

I get the scheme, the german highways got equipped with optical readout equipment to check if all vehicles have their autobahn-tags on and activated, in betweentimes it runs a scan of all and any signplates if they are sought for and the data is stored for yet undefined time and can easily be used to track-back one´s movement if law execution wants that.

but a comfortable leasing scheme that will end up in a full range of varieties including also anonymous prepaid schemes like in the mobile phone market anyways, there are allready some interresting potential synergy effects in such a combo.
i can perfectly understand why someone wouldn´t want to have his vehicle fuel of the same supplier as his cable, mobile, internet, mobile broadband an d landline telephones and electricity and also gas and water, but nobody will have to, there will allways be a choice of providers and payment plans including anonymous prepaid or simply by using some gift card.

 

[Anonymous]

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...things to be concerned about ...

HA! I see bills all the time for trips folks have taken on the local toll highway. Dates plus times of day, durations of trip... Intersections where the highway was entered and exited... all this from a private company that provides transponders and shoots pics of the traffic. (If they monitor their own transponders, why can't others also?)

Ppl are waaaaay too addicted to their motorized carriages to care about any silly privacy concerns...
tks
loC

ps... my BMW is bigger than your BMW! Haha! And you call yourself a man?! HAHAHA!