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Your location is already being tracked quite accurately by your smartphone. So that horse has already bolted. Vehicle tracking and charging not only allows for
by beerlord 8y ago
Your location is already being tracked quite accurately by your smartphone. So that horse has already bolted.
Vehicle tracking and charging not only allows for effective replacement of gas taxes (they can remain in place just to address the pollution angle for legacy vehicles) but also to tackle congestion - situations where a 10% reduction in vehicles would result in a 30% increase in speed, etc.
- jasonjayr 8y agoI know this, and I'm not going to pretend that there isn't pretty liberal data sharing between intelligence + cellular companies, but I think it would be easier to regulate an interface between private companies + government, rather than regulate use of already retained data. For now, you can choose to not bring your cell phone on that trip to the seedy part of town, so we got that going for us.