More big brother

[RC1]

who pays the $2k do you get it subsidised

[swbarnett]

who pays the $2k do you get it subsidised

As far as I'm concerned this question is mute because I for one will not be using it. I don't give a rat's arse what the law says. If there's one thing that really makes my blood boil it's any kind of enforced personal tracking.

[Insanity_rules]

Who comes up with these statistics?

All Statisticians know that 28% of these statistics are rectally extracted. I have statistics to prove it!

[unhingedlizard]

As far as I'm concerned this question is mute because I for one will not be using it. I don't give a rat's arse what the law says. If there's one thing that really makes my blood boil it's any kind of enforced personal tracking.

Totally agree. someone puts one of these on my bike it wont last long, fines or no. Although they can track you from your cellphone........

All Statisticians know that 28% of these statistics are rectally extracted. I have statistics to prove it! .

And 83.9% of statistics are made up on the spot

[FilthyLuka]

Totally agree. someone puts one of these on my bike it wont last long, fines or no. Although they can track you from your cellphone........

+1, get the cutters

and you can always turn your phone off. What happens if you have a bike with a kickstart and no battery?

[ManDownUnder]

Oh I can see it now.

The State decided it would be best fro all to have the device - clearly a benefit. Then - at 2:17am little Timmy has a massive Asthma attack and needs to be taken to hospital ASAP.

Dad jumps in the car which ROARS away up to 53 kph...

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

All Statisticians know that 28% of these statistics are rectally extracted. I have statistics to prove it!

But statistically speaking all statistics also have a 20% margin of statistical error based upon which idiot is using the statistical data to come up with the statistics... or something like that.

basically stats can easily be twisted and churned... if we really wanted to we could using the same stats show what ever we wanted. Its quite easy to do.

[SPman]

The marvels of modern technology. But -- if all you wish to do is prevent a car speeding, why use such a technologically complex method. Governors have been around for about 100 years. It would be no harder to pass a law requiring every vehicle to have an untamperable governor, than it would be to pass a law requiring every vehicle to have an untamperable GPS speed controller. The just have a wee unit beside the road that broadcasts a low power signal that gives the speed limit for that section of road. Done at a fraction of the cost and complexity.

Shhhhhhhhh......don't give them ideas.

Oh

It's simple

They'll pass on that one.

[Boob Johnson]

Everything happens so slowly that they don't have time to waste on things like this.

And the anti smacking bill took how long to pass?



If they want it bad enough they WILL rush it in. Lets just hope there is no back door deal where the right (or wrong depending how you look at it) people get a back hander off the massive $$$ changing hands

[swbarnett]

Although they can track you from your cellphone........

I think they can only locate you in urban areas where you're linked to two or more towers. With only one tower they can only get down to somewhere along a line from that tower (or can they determine distance from a tower from signal strength?).

I don't like this much either but at least you can turn your cellphone off.