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Even if it was technologically feasible, politically possible and economically cost-effective I still don't think it's workable because you'd require a far higher degree of compliance than is currently achievable with the population we have.

For a start everybody'd have to buy a box to be fitted to the car. I wouldn't know where to end with likely societal problems that would tumble out of there.

For a system to work, the people who are inconvenienced by it have to have a buy-in over their current arrangement. That's simple psychology, yet from my experience, techies ignore the human dimension almost entirely.

But it's all neither here nor there, give it 5 years and I'm none too convinced there will anything like as much driving as there is now. Average wages are falling, cost of petrol is rising. something's gotta break.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 8th, 2010 at 07:38:57 AM EST
Automobile production and distribution is centralised.

Mandate the system in all new automobiles. Problem solved.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jun 8th, 2010 at 11:08:59 AM EST
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