Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!bbn.com!cosell From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <63910@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 27 Apr 91 12:15:43 GMT References: <6750023@hp-vcd.HP.COM> Sender: news@bbn.com Lines: 32 johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes: }<<< }< 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 }---------- }Thats what I heard, they could not guarantee the clocks were close enough }to prove a conviction for short trips. }For long trips speeders could simply "Lose" the ticket out the window and }sinply pay the longest possible distance fare. That is far cheaper than }a speeding tickect. Ah, but look how wonderful things will be when computers enter the scene. If you get one of those "who I am" readouts [that they're pushing for use at least in NYC to replace the tollbooths on the GW Bridge], then you wouldn't need to take a ticket at all: you roll through the entrance booth and they can read out not only who you are and which entrance you came through, but *when*. Then when you exit, they can automatically tote up your toll, and even include the fine for the speeding violation, as appropriate [and 'synchronization' wouldn't be an issue, since all of the timings would have been done relative to the system clock on the machine coordinating all of this]. Won't that be nice? :-) [NB. They can do that anyway, just by using your car ID # [which is right where the toll-taker can see it, although that is a LOT of crap to copy down as you go through], but entering your plate number as you drive away is probably workable.] /Bernie\