Lots of talk here lately about ways to stop kids from street racing, there are all sorts of asian kids whose parents set them up here with a place to live and a fancy car, while they're back making money in Taiwan or Hong Kong ... major problem, a young mountie was just killed by one, nailed crosswise in an intersection at high speed
So one suggestion was, make all new drivers get GPS location beepers in their vehicles, and pay the costs of a central system that could monitor movement .... it's likely possible to set up an automated scanning system for speeding vehicles, if point A to point B is covered in less than X seconds, obviously the machine was exceeding the limit .... fairly intrusive, this, hard to say if the privacy issue could be raised against it under the charter, probably not, as driving is a privilege not a right, and what is being monitored is the machine not the individual
'I used to test mine vehicles for CO and NO with a draeger tester.' - this is a german company, Draeger, makes mine safety equipment .... years ago i knew a guy who designed and printed instruction manuals for their whole line, in twenty-something languages including arabic ... and did it all from a farmhouse near a village out of Newcastle on the Jedburgh road .... didn't matter where he lived, he had an enormous phone bill anyway, paid by the company in any case, contract was cost-plus and they treated him well ... this was before the internet, there were dial-up procedures for transfer of data ..... where he lived was not so far from where old Lord Armstrong began what became Vickers-Armstrong, started out making mine pumps, then went into artillery as competition for Krupp |
