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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Automobile Tracking Devices
Message-ID: <307@terak.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 14:04:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 14:04:34 1985
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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[quotes follow flame]

The local newsrag reports that a wondrous new device is going to help
us catch car thieves!  It consists of a homing beacon, built into the
car where it can't be easily disabled.  The beacon is normally silent.
The police (upon notification that the car has been stolen) will
transmit a coded signal which will activate the beacon.  Police cars
will be equipped with equipment which can track such beacons.

WHAT A GREAT IDEA!  I'm sure glad that only the POLICE will have the
equipment that it takes to activate and track such beacons.  Because
I know that I can trust the POLICE to never activate my beacon unless
my car is stolen.  And I know that they will take great care to be
sure that it really is ME reporting the GENUINE theft of a car that
REALLY belongs to me.  And that the police would NEVER cave in to
pressure from the FBI, CIA, or Treasury Department.

> > Actually the gas tax is among the fairest of all taxes, in that it is
> > a user tax.  New technology may make the toll argument obsolete.  Sensors
> > on the highways could detect an individual vehicle and compute tolls for
> > all roads to be billed to the owner monthly.
> 
> HELP!!!  Somebody wants to install a system that will provide the
> Federal Government with absolute identification and tracking
> capability for every vehicle on the road, along with ownership
> information for the same!!!!
> 
> Anybody put a tracking device on MY car and it's going to be smashed
> to smithereens in seconds after I find out about it.
> 
> The Feds ain't got no friggin' business knowing where I go, and when!
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug