EU looking to track you everywhere you drive
Drivers face having their every move tracked by a ’spy in the car’ black box.
The system will constantly check a vehicle’s speed – making cameras redundant – and allow for pay-as-you-go tolls.
The £36million EU project is partly funded by the UK Government and backed by car makers and the telecoms industry.
It will be unveiled later this year with a view to its integration into future cars. Manufacturers suggest this could be as early as 2013.
Vehicles fitted with the system will emit a constant ‘heartbeat’ pulse revealing their location, speed and direction of travel.
EU officials believe the technology will significantly reduce road accidents, congestion and carbon emissions.
Engineers say the system will be able to track cars to within a yard, making it significantly more accurate than existing satellite navigation technology.
Experts say the system will link up easily with the pay-as-you-drive road tolls being backed by the Government.
The system allows cars to ‘talk’ to one another and to roads wired up to the system. A communication device behind the dashboard transmits the car’s location every half a second.
The messages are transmitted through mobile and wireless networks, as well as on short-range microwave or infrared routes. Vehicles will be able to warn each other if they are on collision course.
I have a hard time believing that the government or those companies contracted to provide this technology could get it to actually do half of what they claim. I do believe that no matter what they end up with it will be used to harm the people of Europe. Big Brother just keeps on trudging along over there.
Now taking bets on how long they look into doing that in the United States. Yes we have Massachusetts and I believe Washington looking to tax people based on miles driven but this EU program is far more serious.
