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Transponders for all vehicles?
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:23 am
by salsajoe
Read recently that all new cars (assume new models) from October 2014 are required to have position transponders fitted under new EU regulations to be able to find them in an emergency. Not found any info since. Anyone else heard about this?
Re: Transponders for all vehicles?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:09 pm
by HoverDonkey
All sounds rather scarily Orwellian to me.
Surely the total loss of privacy far outweighs the slim chance that you'll crash in the back of beyond? If this is actually true, then I'm giving up all hope for humanity...
Re: Transponders for all vehicles?
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:42 am
by salsajoe
HoverDonkey wrote:All sounds rather scarily Orwellian to me.
Surely the total loss of privacy far outweighs the slim chance that you'll crash in the back of beyond? If this is actually true, then I'm giving up all hope for humanity...
Yes had the same view on this that was why I tried to find out more.