This is one of the little items that might shock a few Germans....reported by Spiegel.
They say that there is a EU Commission planning to directly control gas usage of cars and smaller trucks....likely coming in 2020.
This would also lead onto some idea of speed controls and driving profiles being maintained.
You would think that it'd be fairly 'no' topic with most EU members, but Spiegel says that several states (without naming them) have given the thumbs up on this.
How all of this would work? The general suggestion is laid out that some type of GPS device would be used. No cost is really discussed, and one might guess that you'd be talking about at least a hundred Euro to buy the device. The next question would be how you download the data....protect the data, and store the data.
Radical? If you confront most German drivers on this.....they won't be that supportive. Why do you need to regulate drivers and their habits? Will this EU group start to get into the business of where you went on Sunday afternoon, or how fast you went? The odds of people disrupting their device or just saying 'no'?
The other little question to this.....will there be some vast empire created out of thin air, with hundreds of people per country trying to collect this data and monitor people? Who would pay for this little 'empire'? Not to take it that far....but why not also collect data on toilet flushing and note the flushing behavior or profile of everyone sitting on a toilet as well.?
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