+MaxEntropy Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1789996 Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle. Quote Link to comment
yeahright Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 So, my son and his mother drove to visit her folks last weekend. After their return we loaded his tracks into Mapsource to see where they had been. She drove the first half on the way back, he finished. Interestingly (we hadn't examined detail before), you can check the breadcrumb trail and it'll report a timestamp as well as average speed for each breadcrumb leg. She was doing 74mph on the Mass Pike (BUSTED!), while he was never over the limit. Yet she always gripes about him going too fast. He agreed to never mention this, as it's better to let sleeping dogs lie. I can't imagine the cost of a state equipping all cars with GPSrs, administering the retrieval, storage and analysis of the data, as well as tracking the gasoline consumption. The cost of a program like this would outstrip any increase in refined revenue. They'd have to increase the taxes greatly in order to collect the small differential they are currently after. Hopefully sane minds will arrive at a more practical alternative. Faster, Better, Cheaper Pick any two. Quote Link to comment
+skeeter-n-lucy Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 The new video tape units in some police cars have a port for GPS. I originally thought that it would be a bad thing until I was in a ditch fighting a guy and couldn't get to my radio. Its an easy to keep a dangerous job safer. There is a whole DPS(Texas) district in West Texas that had GPSR's installed in their cars through a grant. At the time (4 years ago) they were awesome and an excellent tool, color too!! Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 quote: I can't imagine the cost of a state equipping all cars with GPSrs, administering the retrieval, storage and analysis of the data, as well as tracking the gasoline consumption. The cost of a program like this would outstrip any increase in refined revenue. They'd have to increase the taxes greatly in order to collect the small differential they are currently after Wasn't there a rental ar company in CT that got busted using these last year? If they determined that you were speeding they kept your deposit or somthing like that. It was a smaller company not Hertz or Avis et al. These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes; Nothing remains quite the same. Through all of the islands and all of the highlands, If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane Quote Link to comment
+jeff35080 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 I originally thought that it would be a bad thing until I was in a ditch fighting a guy and couldn't get to my radio Been there, done that Many people fear the technology, but some of us welcome it as it makes our jobs and lives easier. Of course, there's no more lying to the dispatcher over the radio when they ask which unit is closest to a call Jeff http://www.StarsFellOnAlabama.com http://www.NotAChance.com If you hide it, they will come.... Quote Link to comment
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