I THOUGHT IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT HEARTED FUN FOR POSTERS TO TELL US ABOUT BOTH THE CARS THEY DRIVE AT THE MOMENT, AND THE CARS THEY WOULD ASPIRE TO DRIVE, IF THEY HAD THE RESOURCES.

LOL :o)

REMEMBER EVERYONE TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN THE PETITION TO SCRAP THE GOVERNMENTS PLAN TO CHARGE TRAVELTAX EVERY TIME YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR..............................SO FAR THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT 1.6 MILLION SIGNATURES ON THE LIST. WE NEED 5 MILLION FOR THEM TO LISTEN......................TODAY IS THE LAST DAY.........TODAY IS THE LAST DAY................DO IT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE AT......................PETITIONS.PM.GOV.UK/TRAVELTAX...............TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME.

Oily - It only needs 100 signatures to be passed on to officials in Downing Street - so I think there is more than enough already.

I wouldn't overly worry about this suggested tracking concept because quite frankly, whoever proposed the idea didn't think it through. Have a think about what is being proposed. A number of satellites will be required to continuously monitor the movements of every car in the country, and since the satellites will not be able to predict when you are going shopping (or whatever) this literally will mean the monitoring of EVERY single car whether in motion at any given time or not in use (or in a showroom, etc). Does anybody think that we have enough satellites in orbit at the moment to continously monitor the millions of cars out there? I think not. So the governement would have to fund the production of a whole flotilla of new satellites, which will not be cheep. Is there enough space out there for hundreds of geo-stationary satellites? Hardly cost effective. And another thing - while these satellites are busy transmiting data back to their groundstations about car movements, they can't be transmiting TV signals, radio comms, telephony, spy images, etc. In other words, the idea of monitoring tracking systems in vehicles will take up too much of the available bandwidth of the satellite systems. I don't think the telcos and governmental agencies will be too happy with their satellites not being used for the function they were initially designed for, and would actively oppose such use.

Just my thoughts on the matter.