Re: Galileo - what for?

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:29:52 +0100, Stichting ST <atarist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 31 Dec 2005 11:33:30 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
><juergen.nieveler.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>"M. Handschuher" <k12@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> It will! For example, the German highway toll system for trucks is based
>>> on GPS. Most probable they will switch to Galileo in the future to get a
>>> better accuracy.
>>
>>It was already announced back in the design stage that TollCollect will
>>switch to Galileo when it becomes available.
>>
>>By then, also private cars will have to use that system, meaning that
>>the necessary hardware will be mass-produced and become quite cheap.
>>Who knows, they'll probably pass a new law requiring mobile phones to
>>contain Galileo-receivers as well (for "emergencies").
>>
>>Juergen Nieveler
>
>No, no the keyword that will push the use of Galileo is "war again terror'.
>I expect all kinds of laws to be made that force EU-citizens to use Galileo.
>First there will come the use of Galileo for the German toll-collect (Maut)as
>you already said.
>That system will be extended to private car users and then their
>autonavigation system will of course use Galileo. Many countries will follow
>Germany that has taken the lead now.
>Now in Europe there are laws forcing all telecom firms to log (for 6 month to
>15 year, depending on the country) and keep info about who phones who where
>when. That info is needed for the war against terror so nobody is against it.
>Now places from where you mobile phone is, are determined by the recieving
>groundstation. But that is not good enough so (for help and recue now, against
>terror later) mobile phones will have Galileo chips inside (by law).
>And then all those prisoners that can be kept prisoner in their own home by
>way of a non-detachable GPSr with wireless communication.
>Russia has laws coming that will force all GPSr in the country to be also
>GLONASS-compatible.
>And since the Iron Curtain is lifted (and the Cold War ended), we in W-Europa
>like to copy from them all kind of usefull things that make our society more
>STASI-oriented because there is a war going on!
>
>Piet

I said:
"Russia has laws coming that will force all GPSr in the country to be also
GLONASS-compatible."
In this I am wrong. The laws of concern here are more like regulations for
institutions of governmental nature to use the own GLONASS system for
'official' positioning.

Piet


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