Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!learn From: learn@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (William Vajk ) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <1456@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> Date: 13 Apr 91 14:44:08 GMT References: <6750022@hp-vcd.HP.COM> <1991Apr13.030350.17798@Think.COM> Organization: Dares No Organization Like Dis Organization Lines: 22 In article <1991Apr13.030350.17798@Think.COM> Barry Margolin writes: >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. New Jersey tried using the time stamps on their toll tickets as a basis for issuing speeding tickets many years ago. I never did find out the details of the case law which brought the previously successful convictions to a sudden stop. It is possible that the basis for the "violations" was dependent on distinctly individual and spacially separated timekeeping devices with no assurance of synchronization. If that was the basis then it might be possible for a new rash of prosecutions because a single timekeeper is now in use, a networked directly connected computer. There is still a problem in that quite often there is more than one individual in the car, and other than by admission, it would be impossible to ascertain who was driving, who was speeding, and at what speed. And is it conspiracy if the passenger says "faster, faster" ??? Bill Vajk