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[quote user="blownout cylinder"] [quote user="Bucyrus"] This will be micromanaging your driving to the extent that you might as well be riding a train or bus.  Much of the traffic law enforcement will be taken over by this automatic system as well.  If you run a red light, the system will know it and instantly deduct the fine from your pre-paid account.  When your account gets to zero, the system disables your engine.  This will transform the driving experience as though you have a highway patrol officer riding in your passenger seat. [/quote] When I was a youngling about 12 I had a book about automotive design that had a section about taking a trip in a car that figured out the route it would take to get you to wherever you wanted to go. There was some kind of a mention of controlling your speed and such as well. I guess these dreams of control were everywhere ----<IMG alt=Whistling src="http://cs.trains.com/trccs/emoticons/icon_smile_whistling.gif" mce_src="http://cs.trains.com/trccs/emoticons/icon_smile_whistling.gif"> [/quote] There has always been the vision of some sort of automatic system that would drive your car once you tell it where you want to go.  Usually, it involved some kind of electronic system embedded in the roadway.  But there has always been too much devil in the details to develop a practical system.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> What I am expecting with the concept that I described on page 1 of this thread is an overlay system that will monitor driver performance in several ways, but will not actually drive the car as a fully automatic system would.  I see this overlay system tracking each vehicle, controlling speed, and checking compliance with traffic control signals and signs, distraction rules, seatbelt use, turn signal operation, vehicle lamp performance, etc.    Here is a link to a study on external speed control for vehicles: <o:p></o:p> <A href="http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/vehicles/intelligentspeedadaptation/" mce_href="http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/vehicles/intelligentspeedadaptation/externalspeedcontrol/externalvehiclespeedcontrolp4549">http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/vehicles/intelligentspeedadaptation/</A>  The ability to set the tolls automatically will allow what is called congestion pricing.  Here is an overview of that concept:   <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing</A>
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