Galileo GPS - reasons to be cheerful?

reasons to be cheerful?

No, it'll either render all of our current GPS systems obsolete (yeah I know they say it won't but they said speed cameras weren't money machines) or we'll have to pay an annual fee to access them.
 
But then if Bush & Co decide that they're playing warrior in some remote country and scale down their GPS system, the way they did in the Gulf War, we can atleast have an independant GPS that will remain accurate....
 
Mmmmmmm? "It is costing some 3.4bn euros (£2.3bn; $4bn) of public and private investment and represents the biggest space project yet undertaken in Europe". but then says "Galileo will be a civil system. It will be run by a private consortium and will offer guaranteed levels of service".

Why would a private investor put in part of £2,300,000,000 & get feck all back?

Does that sound like a good investment?
 
Within a couple of years, all new mobile phones will have a GPS reciever in them.....with RDF tags in everyday items in shops, GPS tracking and reporting through our phones and the immense marketing possibilities it will give 'them', expect to be recieving Texts of maps from exactly where you are to a close by shop that happens to have a very similar item to ones their database knows you often buy, at a small discount.

Speed cameras will become redundant....the RDF tag in your ID card will send your information to the ticket issueing office as soon as you exceed a speed limit, measured by the GPS systems and RDF points alongside the road.

The technology is there right now to watch everyone, everywhere, all the time.....it truly is getting to be like some SCIFI film :eek: :eek:
 
Why does the Government need it?

"Galileo will deliver the tools national governments need to introduce wide-scale road charging."
 
Fanum has a point.

Our government can't use the US system to nail us down on congestion charging, speeding, etc. It must have its own system (or at least one shared around the EU).

We are already one of the most surveyed countries on earth with all the CCTV that we have. Arguably that does good because it's aimed at criminals but the reach that total monitoring via GPS will give the government disturbs me. YOUR EVERY MOVE WILL BE RECORDED.

Our government is supposed to act for the people. So ultimately it's up to the people to decide what they want.

Whatever, do you think the career criminals will put up with that? Won't they be the ones identity-swapping the chips embedded in our number plates? Just how much effort do you think the government will invest pursuing awkward sods like these when they can milk some 'law abiding' citizens with a computer-controlled mail shot?

Or, put another way, do you trust Mr Blair?
 
Pressurized said:
YOUR EVERY MOVE WILL BE RECORDED.

Or, put another way, do you trust Mr Blair?
Click to expand...

You'll only be tracked if you have a transiever on you. Current GPSRs don't transmit but phones do. So, if you turn your phone off while you're driving (as you should!!) you'll be OK.....for a while.

It's not Mr Blair we have to worry about. It's the mysterious "powers that be".i.e. the powers in the Civil Service that really run things (see "Yes Minister") and the unelected b"eurocrats" in Brussels.
I've said for years now that George Orwell got everything right except the year. i.e. it's not 1984, it's 20##?? Thing is, what can or should we do about it?
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

ebbo
European Galileo GPS project update
Replies
0
Views
1,327
ebbo
ebbo


Back
Top Bottom