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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Amendments
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 03:03:50 GMT

In article <6750022@hp-vcd.HP.COM> johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes:
>Within the next decade we are going to see flight recoder technology
>coming to your family car.

Even without "flight recorder technology", I'm surprised they haven't tried
to use other available mechanisms yet.  In particular, on the Massachusetts
Turnpike (I-90), when you enter the main section of the turnpike you get a
toll ticket that says what exit you entered from and the toll to all the
other exits.  It also has a mag stripe, which I assume has the entrance
number recorded on it.  I wonder why it doesn't also have the entrance time
recorded, so that when the toll taker sticks it into his machine it would
ring bells and call a cop if the average speed had to have been greater
than 55.

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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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