Satellite-Assisted European Road Tolls Next?

Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Pay-as-you-go motoring just around the corner,' the European Space Agency (ESA) says that "road tolls could be made fairer if satellite-assisted distance pricing is implemented." Experiments are currently underway in Ireland, Portugal and Germany, before a possible extension to other countries. Potential benefits of such a road tolling system would be fairer implementation of charging on a 'pay for use' basis. All these experiments are using the US-operated Global Positioning System (GPS). But in 2010, when the system is fully implemented, it will use the Galileo satellite system."

eh?

[EMH_Mark3]

Satellite-Assisted European Road Trolls? ugh, I need to stop reading Slashdot :/

Typical bill

[OpenSourcerer]

Toll Usage : 56 Euros
Satelite surcharge : 734 Euros
Getting a ticket because the sattelite tracked how fast you went : priceless

Re:How easy to disable?

[drsmithy]

yeah, but what they really want to do is charge more for certain roads or road types - eg super-mega-freeways will be expensive (but fast and convenient), whereas smaller roads will be slow but cheap.

This is already done - speed traps.

Re:Galileo vs. GPS

[Anonymous Coward]

If you drive a Corvette in Germany at full speed, stay in the slow lane. Otherwise you'll get run over.