Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <1991Apr13.030350.17798@Think.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA References: <6750022@hp-vcd.HP.COM> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 03:03:50 GMT In article <6750022@hp-vcd.HP.COM> johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes: >Within the next decade we are going to see flight recoder technology >coming to your family car. Even without "flight recorder technology", I'm surprised they haven't tried to use other available mechanisms yet. In particular, on the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90), when you enter the main section of the turnpike you get a toll ticket that says what exit you entered from and the toll to all the other exits. It also has a mag stripe, which I assume has the entrance number recorded on it. I wonder why it doesn't also have the entrance time recorded, so that when the toll taker sticks it into his machine it would ring bells and call a cop if the average speed had to have been greater than 55. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar