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Paranoid enough for you?

I do not know the mentality of the typical truck driver in this country or in Britain BUT I do know that something like that seems to be incredibly difficult to do in this country from past legislative efforts in the past. Its nearly impossible to get truckers to adhere to a 8 hour rest plan just for safety reasons. I doubt that you will be able to enforce a national "flight plan" scheme. Maybe the national trucking companies will come on board but their drivers might not. The independent truckers more than likely won't at all.

All you have to do is sit at a busy truckstop on any of the interstate highways in the US and the magnitude of the required amounts of surveillance will sink in. Just count the trucks that come in and stop for lunch, a nap, fuel, whatever and then count the number that pass in both directions (or all 4 for those Interstate intersections)and DON'T stop.

Certainly a truck is more likely to be easily pattern recognized by a computer system but all of the hardware and software to do an "after-the-fact" analysis much less a realtime analysis would be impossible to fund.

Posted by: Xwindowsjunkie   Posted on: 12/26/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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