It came up today, via a Focus magazine article (a German news magazine) that a major privacy issue is brewing with the diesel car mess here in Germany.
To get around driving bans, and virtually avoided in telling the general public of Germany....the German federal government intends to start some type of monitoring service (most assume it means the car tags will be viewed and data shared with various cities and states)....with this data having just about everything about the car, the owner, and if it's been retrofitted.
Most everyone in the past six months have agreed that finding the diesel cars and banning each one from entry or fining each one....would be impossible. Well....somewhere in a draft law from ten days ago.....there's a piece noted now that will open up car data files to city municipal authorities.
Naturally, this has gotten some political folks a bit peeved because it's a general violation of privacy to share this type of data.
The cameras there and operational? Marginally. You might find some autobahns with the tag-cameras up and running but in cities around Germany? Few if any have them up and running. My humble guess is that hundreds of millions of Euro will have to be spent for the sixty-odd cities moving toward diesel bans, and getting those connected to a city computer system read every single tag, then hit a diesel 'checker' to see if that car met a retrofit.
Moving next onto some entry-tax? Well....no one says that but you could easily arrange this system to tax each car entering a 50-cent fee for use of city streets for that day. Long-term, one might sense that there were various agendas tied to the diesel business....to lead you around to the cameras and the ability to sense each car entering a city.
Yes, you wake up in ten years to find that the city of Frankfurt might have a daily fee of 2-Euro if you were to enter the city for business or pleasure with your car.....forcing you more and more toward trains or buses.
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