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Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: Stuart
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 00:00
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Rick Damiani wrote in message ...
>joel-garry@nospam.home.com (Joel Garry) wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 04:20:46 GMT, Shiva Nataraja
>><freereport@ms39.url.com.tw> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 08 Oct 1999 18:06:37 -0400, Edsel Chase
>>><starswirler@geocities.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This suggested to me that all vehicles would need to be equipped with
>>>>> a transponder device in order for the intersection signals to detect
>>>>> their presence; without a transponder, the intersection would not know
>>>>> you were there and presumably might not turn green fot you.
>>>>
>>>>This is correct --
>>>
>>>And it is this aspect to which I object. I don't think it's a good
>>>idea to have a tracking device in my car, allowing Big Brother to
>>>track my every move 24 by 7...
>>
>>Don't buy a GPS system, then.
>
>GPS systems can only receive. They cannot transmit.

God, that's just what the CIA wants you to think. And anyway, it's receiving
instructions that will disable your car when they do the thing that they
have been wanting ti do for years.
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From: "Stuart" <1@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/10/09
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